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"There's a lot of different form going on between Jimi Hendrix, Bartok, Fatz Waller and Brahms. And the gift was, it became a place where, after you've learned how it works, you can take all the rules and throw them away and say: 'I have to make my own now.' You've learned other people's rules. It's like a map, like a map. And then you take the map away and say 'I have to make my own path down this mountain now. I've seen how other people have navigated and now I'm gonna take my own little boat.' I think that's the whole idea of creativity. It's trusting in your own way. That's when it gets exciting, not on copying."
-- Tori; Dutch Programme "Veronica In Concert", Early 1996
"My brother would bring Jimi in, my father would make him take Jimi out again, and I would say 'Why daddy, he looks like Jesus?' I was five in 1968 and it took me years later to find Jimi again. My friend Joe said to me, 'Jimi is God.' and I said 'You mean that guy that plays guitar?' I don't think he's forgiven me for that yet."
-- Tori; Cornflake Girl UK Part 2 Single
"My father said to me, you know, what would you have written about if I had been a dentist? Which is fair enough. I think that having had so much Christian doctrine shoved down my throat, you know, some of it tasted good. Like I thought Jesus was sort of like Jimi Hendrix. You know, there is that comparison. He had these, um, really radical ideas for the time. But how, as I studied and I started to get books when I was 13 and really study. I said, Dad, why are we so controlled and why do we feel so much shame? This is not what this rebel was talking about. And as I started to study, I really opened myself up to a lot of different belief systems. My dad really wanted me to write religious music...and he got his wish I guess."
-- Tori; MTV Revue, Nov 4, 1998
"We have a lot of people that have vision -- as musicians, some as writers - Alice Walker, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Janis. If you look at all the great artists and cultural figures there is a common thread, a common message. It's a sort of unspoken law but I think all these different people are onto something, they all say it in different ways."
-- Tori; Attitude Magazine, Nov 1999
I: Did you ever want to be a man?
T: When I was younger, yes. First Jimi Hendrix, then Jimmy Page. Both played guitar and for me they were the absolute symbols of coolness. But then I got a guitar of my own. And after that I never wanted to be somebody else again.
-- Tori; kulturSPIEGEL, Sep 2001
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