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The studio version of Sugar appears on the UK China single while two different live versions are on the UK Hey Jupiter/Professional Widow and US Hey Jupiter singles and the To Venus And Back: Still Orbiting album.
"So, I had to get this song together in about 2 hours. And this boy really pissed me off, because I had a crush on him, right...and he'd been making tea for me for nine months. And so, the whole thing is...he would sit there and ask me... Now if you're making tea for a girl, right, for 9 months don't you think, guys. I mean help me out here. Your noodle, it can hold a lot of information, right? But don't you think, you can remember how many sugars a girl takes in her tea after 9 months!"
-- Tori; US Hey Jupiter single, intro to song
"I was riding on this train to the west country in England, cuz I had to make a b-side in about 12 hours. And um...usually I cheat, right, I have something already written when I'm eating like egg salad or something and I scratch things down on my lite bill that I never pay. and it's always hanging around and i always have some--ya know, a cheat. i didn't have a cheat this time. So I was like going down to the west country. and uh...you know you try to sit on the train and write about stuff. i'd like little trolls with me and i'd be like writing songs about my little trolls - that ain't gonna cut it! ya know! and um, that's when you get like delusions of serious grandeur. nobody wants to hear about my fucking trolls! (laughter) so, anyway i'm sitting there going ok that didn't work. and There was like nobody cute on the train, so i couldn't like get off! but what's cute to me is like sick to most people, you know. we won't touch that one. anyway, i end up at this place, right this house where we're recording. and nothing's coming and all of a sudden this little voice pops in my head, right here on my shoulder and freddie mercury had just passed the week before. and in his voice he sang this to me. i guess i really should have given him publishing, but it didn't work."
-- Tori in-concert; Tampa, FL 08/03/94, Anything But Honey bootleg
"I was carrying some [troll dolls] with me when I went down to the West County about a year and a half ago. And I take them with me when I'm in big trouble. So, I had to come up with a song in like seven hours. And I didn't know what I was gonna do. And I had my little trolls with me eating my egg salad on the train. And we weren't getting very far. I was writing stupid things like you know...(sings) 'i've got trolls in my pocket and I'm going to the West Country and maybe i'll get some of that cider that they all talk about and not get my ass kicked and it'd be really great!' Well, anyway, um..I can write terrible things but nobody hears most of those. So, I finally got there with my trolls and I showed up and I was sitting at the piano and I was going, "I don't know what I'm gonna write". And the engineer was there and everybody was ready to record. And I didn't tell them that I hadn't written it yet. And so I was sitting there not knowing what I was gonna do, right. And all of a sudden... Freddie Mercury had just died, who I totally adored. And he...all of a sudden I hear this voice in my ear.. and my trolls never sounded like Freddie Mercury before so I didn't think it was them. And all of a sudden I hear this voice going...(sings) Sugar...brings me sugar....
-- Tori in-concert; Detroit, MI 07/04/94
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