I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

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.

Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'

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.

There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'

The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'