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.

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.