Tori Amos

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

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

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I don't like to get in front of people.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!