The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe… now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole...

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

I like involved projects. I’m driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

I’m too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it’s the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

There’s room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you’re trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn’t.

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

My parents think I’m better under pressure.

I’m a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I’m a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling...

Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’

I don’t know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

You don’t leave people who can’t defend themselves.

Huge fan … the highlight of my summer.

Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.

You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

I produce the records. I don’t hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will – for commercial purposes.

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

I want to be an integrated woman.

The violence between women is unbelievable…women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you’re] gonna like them too. And that isn’t necessarily true.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

I’m very at home working with mythology.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.

In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango

I find that in the 21st century, there’s not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn’t you...

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn’t always the best way in.

I don’t see music as working.

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven...

You’re just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.

When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

I think musically, if you talk to (drummer) Matt Chamberlain, he’ll tell you it’s really complicated rhythmically.

He said, first let’s just unzip your religion down.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don’t fit into boxes.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they’re dykes, and they’re always good fun.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I’m in complete charge of my own career.

When it’s all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won’t have anything to complain about.