I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.

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.

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

When you value your crew, they look after you.