Tori Amos

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.

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

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

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

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.