Amos: 'People struggle to describe me'

Tori Amos has claimed that people often struggle to describe her.

Speaking to The Daily Mail, the singer, who is about to release her tenth album, said that she is frequently termed "trashy".

"People struggle to describe me, so they fall back on words like tragic, trashy or kooky," she said. "But those people don't have a lot of tricks in their pocket dictionaries. Their words aren't big or clever. If I'd become too sidetracked by stuff like that, I wouldn't have lasted for 20 years."

Amos added that she sometimes uses made-up characters in her songs in order to keep her life private.

"My songs might be confessional, but I don't like giving away too many details. One of the reasons I've made ten albums and maintained my family life is that I respect my own privacy."