Tori Amos: I'd start the day with three dozen oysters then a rare steak. I felt powerful on stage'

The singer-songwriter on her formative food experiencesMy 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.At 16 I was playing piano in the restaurant of the Sheraton Carlton, right below the White House, making 100 bucks a night, six nights a week. This was more than my dad made, which was strange and difficult. The important thing was not to mistake a lobbyist's or governor's wife's favourite song for...

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