"And isn’t it interesting that we, as woman at 43, our place in the industry is very different than men at 43. There are not a lot of (female) heartthrobs at 43. And there’s something in me that felt for the first time since being a mom I wake up happy in my skin. I think I needed to become a beached whale, get so big and create this life, and by giving birth I recognize what my body as woman could do without any shame or any kind of idea that sexuality isn’t sacred." - Toronto Star 05/01/07

Interviewer: What tracks from the new album do you think will be well-received by your LGBT fans? Tori: Well, Body and Soul, I think, between you and me. That’s one of my favorites. - The Advocate 05/08/07

"There is a side of me, or should I say a side of Santa, wooing me to say, ‘We’ll show them eroticism,’ But we’ll show them eroticism with some grace and some dignity." - Sydney Morning Herald 07/26/07

"To walk with erotica and sacredness in the same hand, to have that as a marriage, is a very powerful thing." - Canberra Times 08/09/07

"It seems as if the women I’ve run across in the last many years have had a real challenge trying to integrate their sexuality with their intellect or with their spirituality. It becomes this confusing triangle. It’s almost a love triangle. Some women who choose intellect really look down upon the women that choose a more sexual way in expressing themselves and getting ahead in the world. Then, of course, your more spiritual women, I think, have a hard time balancing this hot, sensuous, raw passion that’s very ancient that has been circumcised from the feminine when the patriarchy took over from the matriarchy thousands of years ago. You know, there wasn’t shame in it." - Harp Magazine 08/07

"Santa was patterned after Aphrodite. I thought she was a tart. After really immersing myself in her story, I began to see how she would use her sexuality and how she was really comfortable with her body. She didn’t live a life of guilt, where men decided how she felt about her physicality." - Cleveland Scene 10/31/07

"But really allowing sensuality, the feminine, to be there and not to feel that by doing it you’re selling out your feminist girlfriends. You know, that’s a real dangerous one, that if you step into femininity that you’re betraying feminism. I think that is where, if you want to talk about a thought-form that the Right Wing Christians are thrilled about, that’s it right there. Because it keeps us at each others throats...and you’re not really looking at: ‘what is the energy that doesn’t want you or doesn’t want me, or the people that we know, to express ourselves fully as who we are?’ As long as we don’t force somebody else, molest somebody else, as long as we don’t cross that line, I have no desire to tell my friends how they should live or be. I’m flabbergasted at how many people think it is their right to tell me what kind of woman I need to be. Or you, and what kind of man you need to be and that you are not holy and sacred. And I think the one thing that the gay community has got to get is that nobody is going to sit there and give you an awards show that says: ‘okay, Gay Spirituality the award goes to’ you all have to do it for yourself." - Bent 07