Okay, I know I need to try and keep my mind off of what other people are going to think of Put Away Your Dreams, but I just had to post this quote because it really does hit home quite well.
It has crossed my mind maybe that the public doesn’t want my ultimate. But I can’t censor or contrive. -tori amos, diva magazine - feb ’96
So true for me. I mean, even if I find a publisher who loves the main idea, but insists I cut out this or that important piece because the mainstream couldn't handle it, I'd walk away. Even if it means not getting published, I'm not making extreme cuts.
Once I made the commitment to stay true to the sonic shapes that were coming, they just looked at me and said 'you be true to us and we will always be there for you, we will keep coming. It's like fashion week in Paris forever, for the next millenium we're gonna have fashion week and these gals'll come in. But you betray us, and you let them change us in a way that we don't agree to, then we stop'.-Tori Amos 'Welcome To Sunny Florida' interview.
You know, the girls and I never really made a deal like that, it's not like they really ever sat me down and said 'okay, we're giving you these creatures, and they're yours, but if you let them cut them up, it all stops', but I can feel it in the feelings I get making cuts or thinking of making cuts, knowing that if I take out just one wrong line, I could screw myself for life. Just because it would let me get one thing published...that sacrifice isn't enough, one book deal for a lifetime of barenness, nope.
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