I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.