Tori Amos: HEREINMYHEAD.COM

if the sun refused to shine
i would still be lovin’ you
when mountains crumble to the sea
there’ll still be you and me

kind woman, i give you my all
kind woman, nothing more

little drops of rain whisper of the pain
tears of loves lost in the days gone by
my love is strong, with you there is no wrong
together we shall go until we die
my, my, my
inspiration’s what you are to me
inspiration, look see

and so today, my world it smiles
your hand in mine, we walk the miles
thanks to you it will be done
for you to me are the only one
happiness, no more be sad
happiness….i’m glad

Quotes

“Well, Thank You is a wonderful song. I covered it a while back. I think Robert wrote it for his partner, and I remember thinking, I wish I could write something like that. My favorite has to be Whole Lotta Love, though. When I first met my husband {recording engineer Mark Hawley}, that song took on a new significance. Suddenly it was Oreo cookies again. Whole Lotta Love is an aphrodisiac, and it makes you want to put on your kitten-heel boots.
– Tori; Mojo Magazine, October 2001

T: Oh yeah. And it was pretty strict. But I was *obsessed* with The White Album, Sergeant Pepper and Zeppelin. And all I could do was go over and over and over, um, to Jimmy’s playing and his phrasing. And as a piano player, I studied him, and I studied him, and I studied him. And I said, ‘I’m gonna bring this to the piano’. Because he was the bridge, I felt, from classical music to contemporary playing. He understood that. And Robert of course… is the *Goddess*. (both laugh) I mean, Robert understands the energy of the feminine. You’re looking at a bit of Merlin… and when you understand that, you understand what their power was… about the sensuality of the Goddess, that’s what their music was about.

I: And Tori, they’ve been often copied and covered, and no-one so *beautifully*, in my opinion anyway, as you did with that, ah, song Thank You that was on a little EP of yours. Just the most beautiful cover of one of those… Interpretation of one of their songs.

T: That’s good. I think it’s great that Zeppelin is getting played a lot, I think they’ve inspired so much music….and people go back to those records, because they are a bench-mark, no different than The Beatles. It’s very similar. Well I try, again, when I do a cover, I try and approach it from… OK, the piano will look at me sideways and she’ll go, ‘How can we put this in our language, and honour it?’, because their version is always, you know, the definitive. And now how can we bring it to this instrument? The piano, which I think has been stigmatized. The piano isn’t given her due. And a lot of times she’s relegated to sappy-crappy pop music, or you know, just strict classical music.
– Tori; Interview On JJJ FM Radio In Australia, 02/26/96