There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.

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.

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.'

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.