Tori Amos: Native Invader review – calls out society's political and human ills Read moreNative Invader, released this week, is Amos’s 15th studio album, some 25 years on from her solo debut Little Earthquakes. “I’m leaving that to the youth now.”Those 18-hour-long ayahuasca trips could be heavy going, says Amos, but nothing tested her creativity quite like the menopause. “That’s the harshest teacher I’ve met; harsher than fame. I cocooned myself there for a minute, and the muses weren’t coming.”In January, Amos’s 88-year-old mother, Mary Ellen, had a stroke, “and everything changed”. “About everything.” Doctors say it’s difficult to assess the damage, “but I believe she’s still with us,” says Amos gently.

Source: The Guardian September 07, 2017 16:08 UTC