Tori Amos

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.