I like butter and the people who like butter.

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

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.

I've never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an emotional player. I don't really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It's totally reliable and it's alive. I can hear what it's saying.

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 together in the backstory.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.