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"I really like her. She's such a good person. I like her as a person a lot. I like the songwriting and I think I like her singing but I've got to tell you, I have a hard time listening to that record, just on a sonic level. It would make a dog's ears hurt. I hate records that have so much high end and no bottom."
-- Tori; Q Magazine, May 1998
Q: Tori Amos said Jagged Little Pill would make a dog's ears hurt. Is that a crushing disappointment since she was your saviour?
A: I didn't really consider her my saviour, but I was very inspired by her. Inspired by her empowerment through her vulnerability. I'm still a fan of her's, I'll always be a fan. Everyone has their opinion. Whether they love my record or hate it, I just think being in the public eye and sharing music is an amazing way for people to define themselves and we define ourselves in accordance. We define who we are by what we love and what we hate. People loving it or hating it, I just take it in the same way. Other people's relationship to what I do doesn't really affect me that much, although I love inspiring people or (laughs) repulsing them."
-- Alanis; Q Magazine, Mar 1999
"My God, you guys, she's 21. Let her fit into tight pants...Let her explore and grow. I did. What is this you're not allowed to explore? Look at me now. I'm breast-feeding pigs."
-- Tori; Toronto Sun, Jan 30, 1996
"When I first heard Tori Amos's Little Earthquakes, it just blew me away. Perhaps musically it wasn't what I wanted to do, but her honesty was something I related to in such a visceral way. I'm not her and I will probably never write like her and I don't sound like her...but I understand her!"
-- Alanis; Washington Post, Jan 29, 1996
"And as much as I love Alanis - I love that girl from head to toe - but Alanis, what were you going down on him in a theater for? To pick up your Coca-Cola? Give me a break! But this woman in Playboy Mommy, she'll swallow. She'll swallow a billion seeds to protect this little girl."
-- Tori; Alternative Press, Jul 1998
"The first time I heard Tori Amos's Little Earthquakes, I played the record in its entirety, lying on my living room floor, and I just bawled my eyes out. It felt like the first time I could relate to a woman on that level through her music and I was so grateful. I felt that she'd been through a lot of the things I'd gone through."
-- Alanis; Q Magazine, Mar 1996
"When I had moved to Toronto, I was alone in a big city, not knowing anyone. I had several depressions every day, until I heard Little Earthquakes from Tori Amos. Her music turned my life upside down. She touched me like no woman had ever done with her music before and she taught me another way to sing. All my negative feelings, which I had been carrying with me for so long and which I didn't knew what to do with, suddenly got use and meaning. I discovered I must not hide the feelings, but use them. But I still had a lot of shit to deal with."
-- Alanis; OOR Magazine, Apr 20, 1996
"I look forward to playing with a woman whom I will be touched by nightly on a musical, intellectual, spiritual and emotional level."
-- Alanis; about the 5 1/2 Weeks Tour with Tori Amos
"Bringing two visions together to make one show can be tricky, so obviously, it takes a lot of mutual respect and a load of gear. With that in mind, Alanis and I are bringing two trucks just for ourselves: one filled with wine, the other filled with lip gloss."
-- Tori; about the 5 1/2 Weeks Tour with Alanis
"No, it's [the tour] not the Christian campfire-girl thing, where we roast marshmallows and sing 'Kumbaya'. We're two separate people, but we're orbiting together. We see each other before the show always and we talk. We talk about what happened with our day. She was water-skiing yesterday, and I was with my niece who was telling me family stories. Each day we touch base, and it's not a studied thing. It's just hanging out, and you have to trust that is going to set a tone."
-- Tori; Boston Globe, Aug 27, 1999
"Because it [the invitation to tour together] came from her, it meant something to me. And I don't feel a sense of division with her. I also like to watch her show from the wings. I just sense that this is an event. It's about two individual shows going on with two crews. To me, it's like a Dionysian ceremony with two storytellers."
"I wanted to do something sexy on this tour -- the feminist fist-in-the-air thing has been done. I'm hoping to blindfold the piano and rub down Alanis with ice cubes," she says, grinning mischievously. "But I'm not sure if she'll find it funny."
-- Tori; Marie Claire Magazine, Oct 1999
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