Gay men and women have been with Tori Amos since the beginning, and no one knows that more than the flame-haired siren herself.

In a new interview with Stereogum the piano-pounding goddess opens up about the making of Boys of Pele, her seminal third album that is receiving a remastered deluxe reissue next month for its 20th anniversary.

In the conversation Amos describes how her audience expanded with the release of Pele, but the LGBT community were always with her—and still are:

"Yeah, the audience got a lot younger. A lot of teenage girls started showing up. A lot. Before, I had a lot of heterosexual men in their thirties, and some women of course. But something with this record really kicked in. And the gays were always there. They have always been there. Without the gays, I am nothing. Men and women, I am talking about. But really they were the best, they were just there from day one."

Gay men love Amos, but why have they always been drawn to her ever since her teenage days of playing in gay piano bars in Washington, D.C.?

"She's about empowering yourself no matter how alienated you felt throughout your life," explained Efrain Schunior, co-host of Drive All Night, a podcast about the songs of Amos.

"So no matter where you are and how weird you feel, there is power in it and acceptance in it and she creates around her this community of people who accept each other—and it's a wonderful community to be a part of—and the music is also phenomenal. It speaks to that isolated little kid that you feel and you're a little different."

Consider us Ears with Feet for life.

h/t: Stereogum