Tori Amos

To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

I like involved projects.

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. I would really just love to collaborate on that.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.