I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

I do believe that we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality is disconnected from what we feel, and are, as total human beings. But how, for example, can anyone have an understanding of the virgin if they don't also have an understanding of the prostitute, the saint and sinner in one body?

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.'

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.