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" I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful. "

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" Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. "

" There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. "

" Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people. "

" I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. "

" Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained. "

" My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker. "

" Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. "

" People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. "

" My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter. "

" 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. "

" My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me. "

" I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. "

" There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach. "

" I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men. "

" There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often. "

" If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night. "

" I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive. "

" I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. "

" I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s. "

" I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself. "

" 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.' "

" When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth. "

" I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. "

" 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. "

" People listen to music the way they want to listen to music. "

" Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. "