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axesladeI love Tori so much. Talking about the Tuatha De Danaan and her past life as Viking! And perfectly explaning in just a short blurb why I want to settle in Ireland.
Excerpt from KROQ LA House of Blues interview, February 9, 1996
K/B: By the way, I'm glad there's gonna be a transcript of this on America Online cause I'd like to read it later and go, "What is that? What is the deal?" Tell me about being a Viking a thousand years ago, because there are a lot of people who have a sense of a past life. Is that what it is with you, a past life?
Tori: Yeah.
K/B: How do you know you were a Viking?
Tori: Because...
K/B: Man, it's a shame Jerry Springer already left, isn't it.
[everyone laughs]
K/B: Wouldn't this be a great topic for his show?
Tori: No, it's just, look - I think if you have any bit of intelligence at all, you have to figure that living this little life just doesn't get you to sit with Jesus and discuss. I mean, it's about soul-growth, as far as I'm concerned. You keep just traveling around and matter keeps reforming, and that just makes a lot of logical sense.
K/B: What were you? Do you really think you were a Viking or do you have any idea what you might have been?
Tori: Well Kevin, maybe you were the beautiful Irish maiden that I stole and put in my longboat, honey.
K/B: It's possible. It is possible. Sometimes I feel pretty. If that has anything to do with it. Do you have actual, I mean, do you have memories of it or does it come to you in a dream?
Tori: Oh Bean, let's not get dramatic about it.
K/B: No, I'm just trying to figure it out, I don't understand it. I am not... Hey, you tell us you're a Viking, we have questions. We do, because that is so foreign... Look, let me just, let me say this, and you Tori Amos fans are way out ahead of us. We were talking about this earlier today, in that there are things that you all understand, like the faeries, we don't get.
Tori: Yes, but...
K/B: We don't get the faeries. You know what I mean? I mean, I...
Tori: Well let me tell you something about the faeries.
K/B: Alright.
Tori: You go to Ireland.
K/B: Mmhmm.
Tori: You go someplace like County Cork, where the guys are maybe twice as big as you. And you diss the faeries.
K/B: Well, no, not to them, I don't.
Tori: No, you won't have a face left. Because the thing is, those people understand. If you have a modicum of intelligence, you'd understand that the faeries -- I'm sorry, Bean, but -- were a civilization that they believe was exterminated.
K/B: Alright.
Tori: So it's, that's just a term they've put to it, but it was a race of people. It was a people - the Tuatha de Danaan.
K/B: What you're basically saying is that Kevin and me do not have the modicum of intelligence to follow.
Tori: No, Bean, you just have to read a little bit, that's all.
K/B: I guess that's it.
Tori: It ain't on the TV.
K/B: If it ain't on the TV, we ain't seen it.
[everyone laughs]
K/B: Is it on the Jeff Foxworthy show?
Tori: No, it ain't on the TV, honey. Sorry. You have to go read. But go to Ireland. I mean, that's one of my favorite places, and I just think that that place is one of the most creative and exciting for artists right now. So if you wanna just take a little trip somewhere, and it doesn't cost that much. It's a really great place to go.
Excerpt from KROQ LA House of Blues interview, February 9, 1996
K/B: By the way, I'm glad there's gonna be a transcript of this on America Online cause I'd like to read it later and go, "What is that? What is the deal?" Tell me about being a Viking a thousand years ago, because there are a lot of people who have a sense of a past life. Is that what it is with you, a past life?
Tori: Yeah.
K/B: How do you know you were a Viking?
Tori: Because...
K/B: Man, it's a shame Jerry Springer already left, isn't it.
[everyone laughs]
K/B: Wouldn't this be a great topic for his show?
Tori: No, it's just, look - I think if you have any bit of intelligence at all, you have to figure that living this little life just doesn't get you to sit with Jesus and discuss. I mean, it's about soul-growth, as far as I'm concerned. You keep just traveling around and matter keeps reforming, and that just makes a lot of logical sense.
K/B: What were you? Do you really think you were a Viking or do you have any idea what you might have been?
Tori: Well Kevin, maybe you were the beautiful Irish maiden that I stole and put in my longboat, honey.
K/B: It's possible. It is possible. Sometimes I feel pretty. If that has anything to do with it. Do you have actual, I mean, do you have memories of it or does it come to you in a dream?
Tori: Oh Bean, let's not get dramatic about it.
K/B: No, I'm just trying to figure it out, I don't understand it. I am not... Hey, you tell us you're a Viking, we have questions. We do, because that is so foreign... Look, let me just, let me say this, and you Tori Amos fans are way out ahead of us. We were talking about this earlier today, in that there are things that you all understand, like the faeries, we don't get.
Tori: Yes, but...
K/B: We don't get the faeries. You know what I mean? I mean, I...
Tori: Well let me tell you something about the faeries.
K/B: Alright.
Tori: You go to Ireland.
K/B: Mmhmm.
Tori: You go someplace like County Cork, where the guys are maybe twice as big as you. And you diss the faeries.
K/B: Well, no, not to them, I don't.
Tori: No, you won't have a face left. Because the thing is, those people understand. If you have a modicum of intelligence, you'd understand that the faeries -- I'm sorry, Bean, but -- were a civilization that they believe was exterminated.
K/B: Alright.
Tori: So it's, that's just a term they've put to it, but it was a race of people. It was a people - the Tuatha de Danaan.
K/B: What you're basically saying is that Kevin and me do not have the modicum of intelligence to follow.
Tori: No, Bean, you just have to read a little bit, that's all.
K/B: I guess that's it.
Tori: It ain't on the TV.
K/B: If it ain't on the TV, we ain't seen it.
[everyone laughs]
K/B: Is it on the Jeff Foxworthy show?
Tori: No, it ain't on the TV, honey. Sorry. You have to go read. But go to Ireland. I mean, that's one of my favorite places, and I just think that that place is one of the most creative and exciting for artists right now. So if you wanna just take a little trip somewhere, and it doesn't cost that much. It's a really great place to go.
