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Sunday 2 May 2010 | I like a cookie
I think mine is different from Churchill’s; it’s certainly different from Robert Plant’s. For one thing, it has a lot more to do with PMS/PMDD (is this what the whole next decade is going to be like, before menopause? in which case, should I set up a Paypal button so you can all chip in [...]
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Once I get a taste of the essence of a song, then I go and do research. I have hundreds of books in the house that I don't necessarily read until I pick one up one day that I've never picked up before and I turn it to page 102, and there's a picture of something that makes me go to another reference book, that makes me go somewhere else, than makes me take a drive, and then I start forming what the language is. It's so much like word association, you're getting an essence, and you're getting a picture on many layers. And then you're saying, 'There are millions of words I can choose here so how do you find the right ones?' And a lot of times it's not about being literal, it's about making the essence of this song three-dimensional to you, so that she really exists, and she breathes, and she wears perfume, and what does she look like and how old is she and is she bisexual? Is she on lithium? What is she doing?
—Tori Amos
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