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

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" 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. "

" 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 really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks. "

" 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. "

" There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. "

" Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world. "

" 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. "

" You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie. "

" If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them? "

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

" I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off. "

" Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. "

" Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table. "

" I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head. "

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

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

" After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of. "

" A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now. "

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

" Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it. "

" I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. "

" To me glamour isn't about being sparkly. "