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" I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. "

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" 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. "

" Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me. "

" I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. "

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

" My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't kid around. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty. "

" Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself. "

" When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great. "

" The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down. "

" Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little. "

" There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine. "

" I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry. "

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

" There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing. "

" I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating. "

" I'm very at home working with mythology. "

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

" Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually. "

" When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. "

" 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. "

" An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time. "

" 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. "