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"The only thing is I didn't get to hear any of it [that night's concert], except for some of Tori. I'd never seen her before and she's beautiful!
-- Sarah McLachlan; KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Concert, Dec 13, 1996

Sarah said that she "once jokingly challenged Tori to a mud-wrestling competition, with the winner's prize being airplay."
-- Sarah McLachlan; Elle Magazine, Jun 1997

"Well, I would have a good bottle of wine with Sarah (Lilith Fair founder, Sarah McLachlan) any night of the week. But my shows are theater, and I've worked a long time to get them to this point. This isn't just about eating some chicken and hearing a few of your favorite female singers. You walk into my show, you walk into a world -- it's a film every night. I can't impose that on Lilith and vice versa."
-- Tori; San Diego Union-Tribune, Jun 25, 1998

"Let's be brutally honest here. If you can do your own tour, it's your vision, your light, your sound. I think Sarah [McLachlan] has done an amazing job. Sarah owns Lilith. So you're really doing Sarah's tour. Which is fantastic, especially for a lot of women who can't do their own tour or don't want to. It's tough to keep 35 beings on the road and feed and clothe them, maintain the trucks and everything. It's an unbelievable responsibility. I happen to love that side of it. To be able to do your own tour is the most incredible thing. A lot of acts have had to cancel dates because they weren't selling enough tickets."
-- Tori; Newsweek Magazine, Jul 27, 1998

Just ask her bout the misconceptions people have about her attitude toward the Lilith Fair -- Rolling Stone tagged her as someone who doesn't see the point of an all-woman fest -- and she'll tell you exactly what she thinks. "Journalists are looking for a cat-fight because they're bored this summer, but really there is only goodwill inside. Just because I'm not doing the Lilith tour doesn't mean I don't respect it. I'm friends with Sarah McLachlan. I sent her a case of wine on her wedding day. What I don't understand is why nobody understands that I want my own tour. Why is it a problem for women to do their own tours and go on different journeys?" She says that if people really want to support women's music they should be celebrating those women who have the clout to head out on tours of their own. "Not many women are able to accomplish that. Bonnie (Raitt) is going out on her own this year, and Janet Jackson is too, but it's really rare for a woman to be able to do something like this. "I don't want to have to compromise, and the truth is you have to shift your show to participate in something like Lilith."
-- Tori; Now Newspaper, Jul 23-29, 1998

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

I: Is there anyone you regret not having on the tour? [Lilith Fair]
Sarah: I would've loved to have Tori Amos, Alanis, Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox, TLC.
-- Sarah McLachlan; Spin Magazine, Aug 1999