Tori Amos

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

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.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.