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"Here are our twins. They're economic espionage gals - their saying is, 'It's not glamorous, it's just business.'
They infiltrate corporations and access information and send it somewhere else. Good or bad, it depends what side you're on. They're not out protesting with a sign, they're playing chess with these corporate big boys. Its not about peaceful protest, its about being very effective, getting the job done."
-- Tori; Alternative Press, Oct 2001
Amos opted for Heart of Gold as her Neil Young interpretation, even though she personally favors other songs like The Needle and the Damage Done and Cinnamon Girl. She chose Heart of Gold specifically because her view of the song differs greatly from the vision many men have relayed to her. Some males have told Amos that they see the subject, an understanding wife, as someone who can be cheated on without remorse; Amos presents the subject as an ideal partner, one not to be mistreated. "It�s probably very difficult right now to find a heart of gold," she says.
-- Tori; ICE Magazine, Sept 2001
"Well, because whatever bollocks I said about that song, the thing that hits me now is that when I was hearing the guys talk about what a heart of gold was, it was always that thing about wanting women to understand their need to roam. And this is where -- maybe it's just the men that I've known, and some of them I really love, dearly, dearly. There was always that thing about, "Why isn't it enough that you roam with somebody?" I mean, do you really... is this never-fulfilling thing gonna stop? I mean I have this sweater I have called "the end." I wear it -- I want to wear it when -- isn't this the end of the book? Why can't we just be together? But the heart of gold definition from a lot of the men I was working with on this at the time was that she would understand that I love her, but I need to do whatever it is....I think that the version was the heart of gold's answer. Because you know, she's searching for something too, and I think she knows that she is the fantasy of the heart of gold. But that means, you know, will you put up with my bullshit? Which is a very difficult one because you know, there has to be a place, I think anyway, where -- and I have friends in my life that say to me "I just -- I like her, but you know..." And I'm going, "When do you get off that ride and say, 'I'm going to walk down the road with this gal?'"
-- Tori; New York Times "Critics Choice" w/ Ann Powers, January 12, 2002
Last year's covers album, Strange Little Girls, led to some interesting conversations. "I'm open about some of them. Slayer sent T-shirts; that was fun. But some of the messages and conversations were very personal. Yoko Ono had to approve Happiness Is A Warm Gun, and she was absolutely divine. Neil Young had to hear Heart of Gold, because I changed the lyrics. But I didn't change a word of Eminem's ['97 Bonnie and Clyde]. Eminem and I have the same lawyer, which is handy."
-- Tori; Blender Magazine, Nov 2002
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