About Herself
Tori's Political Party:"I'm a Democrat. I voted for Hillary."
"I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest."
"I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over."
"Truly, I was a sweetheart when I was little, like the Honeysuckle Faery. Sweet-pea. But sweet-peas are not poplular after second grade. Sweet-peas become nerds really fast."
"I'm a winter girl; I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists."
"I don't have to try in the least to shock people."
The Piano
"I started to approach it as something with its own conciousness."
"When it comes to the piano, it's not going to work unless there's give and take."
"Well, I'm not ashamed of my body, for me it's a medium for talking to my instrument. Because a grand piano is a very special instrument.... When I sit at the piano my instincts rule....Well, some people have pets, I have a piano. (laughs) Because for me, the piano is a living thing. This thing they call the piano has an energy that.... how should I say it? It's more than just a three-dimensional matter, it's something four-dimensional. It has a body that surrounds it and at the same time it has its own life that transcends the material plane. Sometimes it's male, sometimes it's female, sometimes it's both. Sometimes the relationship between us is so close, that.... (long pause)Well, sometimes I think it's courting me and wants me in bed. And then there are moments when I really have the feeling it fucks with me in bed. But we respect each other. It's like that with the fairies."
"The piano is a living essence."
Playing
(on her arthritis) "It makes me very bitchy. Yes. I mean, you play through it. You can't do anything else but play through it. You take the anti-inflammatories and you do what you can."
"I've never considered myself to be a great player."
Music
"When music becomes predictable, it can't convey any more emotion."
"I'd love to hear some of your perspective on one of my tunes."
"Zebra gets invited to all the parties. Blood Roses doesn't get invited out a lot. She's alright about that. She's very aware of a thing that I haven't dealt with: faithful anger. Anger expressed faithfully. I think she's come to visit me blocked away."
"I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get in ketchup form for people to be open to tomatoes."
"When you come to one of my shows you think that you are walking into this really yummy lunch, and little do you know you ARE lunch."
Love
"I was in love with this boy when I was five years old and I knew we could really make it work. I was trying to convince him and he took this hammer and hit me with it really hard."
"Let go and love, fuck that shit! My heart is scarred. I have a tear running down the middle of it and I'm not ready to say, 'Let go and Love."
"Lucifer understands love better than anybody. You know he's done a mean tango with Greta Garbo a few times."
"I started finding the people inside me; the prostitute that's really angry because I judged her so harshly, the self-righteous virgin who knows everything about sex and has never made love."
Some Favourite Things
Expression:"In another league on another level' I say that all the time. It means I'm really ecstatic about something."
Fast Food:"McDonald's Big Macs"
Ice Cream:"coconut, maple double chocolate, butterscotch, and Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia."
Fable:"I always liked hansel and Gretel because I felt like I had a bit of a wicked grandmother. I thought it was good of someone to really tell it like it could be."
Children's Book:"Alice In Wonderland."
Belief:"I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is this whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you."
City:"Rome. The Italians don't respond to life with logic, but with passion and emotion. I play a lot in Italy, and out of all the countries they probably best understand my songs. They may not understand the words, but they understand what I'm saying emotionally."
Album:"The Beatles' White Album. It's in another league on another level."
Song:"A Day In The Life' by the Beatles."
Miscellaneous
"So I'm in Virginia, and I had crabs.....I keep saying that! I had crab sickness, I had eaten bad crabs in Maryland!"
"It's one thing to be a glitter girl, but it's another thing to be all woman."