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"Uh, friends, and I also like her, is Polly Harvey, we're friends. She's going to try to teach me how to plant brussel sprouts."
-- Tori; Wadsworth Theater Press Conference, Mar 22, 1994

"Bj�rk makes me think I can jump off rooftops, and Polly makes me want to eat mangoes so I don't stay dry 24 hours a day."
-- Tori; Rolling Stone, May 5, 1994

"We have tits. We have three holes. That's what we have in common."
-- Tori; Q Magazine, May 1994

"Like when I listen to Polly's words, I see pieces of me that I'm not willing to see."
-- Tori; Q Magazine, May 1994

"I suppose I give as much as I want to give. I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing. With Tori I liked her straight away, so she got me. But people do have completely the wrong idea about me, almost the opposite, in fact. And I'm quite happy for it to be like that. Do I want loads of people to know who I am? I'd much rather they didn't have a clue."
-- PJ Harvey; Q Magazine, May 1994

"I change my show every night to give me a different place to work from. And I also had a talk with Polly Harvey," she says, referring to a peer with seemingly equal intensity. "To be honest, Polly said, 'Tori, you've got to lighten up.' Polly is telling me this! Funny that, huh? She said: 'You've got to get a sense of humor about [touring] and stop taking this so personally.' And you know what? She was right."
-- Tori; Boston Globe, Jun 10, 1994

"I'll tell you now that there has not been one woman from a band that's turned up at my gigs. Polly Harvey and Bj�rk are the only women I know in the music business. I know hundreds of men in bands. And not just because they wanna get with me. There just ain't that kind of supportiveness among women in rock."
-- Tori; New Musical Express, Dec 17, 1994

I: The track Professional Widow really intrigues me. Someone said it's about Courtney Love...
T: I wrote it about my own experience. I got all that nastiness out. The truth is, if there's a part of you, of Polly [Jean Harvey], of Bj�rk, or of Courtney Love, which is the black widow, then you will relate to the song. If people don't feel that way, they won't resonate with it.
-- Tori; Singapore Interview

"The trio thing [Q Magazine] was 1994. it was just a magical day. I really like those two. I had met Bj�rk before, 10 years ago. I have huge respect for her and for Polly. I haven't seen them in while, but messages get passed back and forth. We're always in a different part of the world. Once the camera was gone, we began to see what each other was about, and in a very brief amount of time we built up a huge amount of trust."
-- Tori; Q Magazine, Nov 2001

INTERVIEWS
Q Magazine, 1994