"You know when you've cried and cried, and you really can't cry anymore, so
you're very quiet?" says Amos. "I started hearing the water. And 'Pandora'-the
last song on the record-came to me. She was sort of warning me that there are
so many feeling under the rocks that I needed to turn into. She told me, You
need to dive into this one, Tori, because your healing is in there. Once you
go, it's a whole new journey, but you've got to metaphorically leave this
little dock and come with me to find out what's really in this ocean of
feelings. So I did. And that's where I met these songs."
From "Magic & Loss"
"Pandora was the first song to really come after we had lost the baby, when I
was just trying to find a reason to wake up in the morning."
From "Tori Amos fills Choirgirl Hotel with Mythic Metaphors", The Tennessean,
August 23, 1998, by Rick de Yampert.
"I use a lot of symbology, so if you dive into the symbol world, you'll have a
better idea of what's going on. You have to go into the myth of Persephone to
really understand what I'm talking about: You have to know that the Lord of the
Flies is another word for Hades, and that Hades captured Persephone. It's the
rape of Persephone; that is her myth. And she became queen of the underworld
and couldn't leave for half the year.
"But did she choose to stay by eating the pomegranate seed? Did she know the
rules or did he trick her?"
From "The Never-Ending Tori: Tour Sharpens Amos' Songwriting Skills",
New Jersey Star Ledger, November 20, 1998, by Jay Lustig
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