When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.

You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

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.'

In order for my live performance to work, which is about generating a focused energy for about an hour and a half, it is necessary for me to listen and take in someone else's focused energy the day of or the day before the live show. That can transpire through a conversation, or inspiration can occur by looking through any type of visual book which sparks a narrative. That narrative then becomes today's seed and can then take root in music terms, where a sonic tree begins to grow.