| So what happens to the girl who is all these girls? How does she integrate the fragments? How does she resolve her anger toward the boys? "It's very much working with that Pele energy, that destruction/creation energy, trying to find the balance, because I would find myself either the lovey-doveyest-woviest sweet pea, or a madwoman," Amos says. With hard work, self-awareness, analysis, and expression, she is bringing all her fragments together. And she has something else that helps, too---her appetite for the humor in life. She interrupts all the analysis with "I think the Brits would laugh their asses off and go, 'Tori, you have to go to a rugby match,' " I realize that I like her even more than I'd imagined I would. This isn't just about worshipping at the temple of the goddess. It's about sharing pudding secrets with a girlfriend. "This is an interview, so I'm speaking to that boy |
out there who feels like he's been s--t on by this girl. I'm speaking to that girl out there who will never get approval from her father--it ain't going to happen, she's never enough. I know how many kids this reaches, but at the same time there is a balance to all that search for wholeness and part of that is going to the rugby game. Diversity creates wholeness." We stop in front of the house. She is lighting and extinguishing one match after another. "And what about the Pele reference?" I ask. "When and how did the album come to be called that?" "I'm a bit of a pyro and I ran out of matches when I was staying in Hawaii." Pianos for pyros, I think. |
