It's been 33 years since her breakthrough album, "Little Earthquakes," catapulted Tori Amos to stardom. Back then, Amos was unlike anyone else on MTV — beautiful, yes, delicate, clearly, but unquestionably defiant as well. Now, at 61, she’s still one of a kind, but with new challenges.
Amos is frank about maturing in the music industry, specifically when it comes to the rigors and shrinking opportunities for women that come with age. When we met, Amos recalled a recent conversation she had with a music executive about touring that sums it up well. He said to her, “If we're not getting demand for postmenopausal women, but we are for men, we meet the demand and supply it.” She paused and looked at me straight on. “I just thought, OK, this is a battle worth fighting.”
