Tori Amos

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

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.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.