She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

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'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's go get an ice cream. I am not going to enable you. If you can only come as a wanton woman for hire, because you feel dirty and shamed, then no. Women are goddesses.' And I know that and I believe that. I chose a man who believed that, too.