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"We've tried so many different approaches on this song and can't quite conjure up the right feel we're looking for. We're hoping Matt [Chamberlain] can work his voodoo on us just like he worked magic for some of our favourite comtempories. Tori Amos and Fiona Apple, for example. (I have severe crushes on both of those girls.) Butch [Vig] seems to be loving the idea of playing with another drummer, and is looking forward to stealing some tricks."
-- Shirley Manson; online journal

Shirley writes that drummer, Matt Chamberlain "just finished working on a new cd with Tori Amos, who I also happen to love and adore. Afterall...she's a fellow red head ain't she?"
-- Shirley Manson; online journal, May 25, 2002

"I get a lot of reassurance from women. I'm very much a woman's woman. I think a lot of people mistake the content [of the songs] as sexual, when they're more complicated than that. They're about how you look to improve yourself, and the people that you hang out with. I wish more women wouldn't rely on the old tactics - it's very easy to make men want you." I tell her it sounds as though Tori Amos could be talking. "Tori's an acquired taste," she says. "She's not conventionally, you know, pretty, not always shoving her cleavage up and being photographed in a bikini. I think we're alot alike." She and I agree this is no way for a lady to act, unless of course, someone were waving a dollar bill in the direction of a catwalk. And we both agree that a woman can get anything she wants out of a guy that way. "Not all men are pigs, though," she insists improbably. "There's a huge majority of women who are pigs. A lot of women that I know are."
-- Shirley Manson; Jane Magazine, Oct 1998

Tori refers to Shirley Manson affectionately as a "Hussy."
-- Tori; "Live And Unrehearsed" Video Webcast, Aug 16, 1999

In order to explore the deeper realms of the female existence on stage, Amos took an unconventional tack: She declined an invitation to join the roster of the Lilith Fair and assembled an all-male band to back her throughout an extensive tour. She insists that these decisions were based upon distinct artistic goals, not latent reservations about sisterhood. "These players are the best that I could find. It was about being great -- that's how I chose my band. And as far as the Lilith Fair, I'm doing my own show, and it's really a theater piece. What I'm doing, I couldn't do at the Lilith Fair. I would have to change it. I did quite a few festivals in Europe, and we had to shift it. It becomes more of a variety show, and there's nothing wrong with a variety show. We had good fun -- [Garbage's] Shirley Manson and I had a laugh, and Bj�rk was on the bill and we get along very well. But the point is, I did have to shift it, and I really did want to create the show that you're going to see."
-- Tori; Westword, Aug 27 - Sep 2, 1998