Interviewer: Where did you learn to play like that?
Tori: I was always kinda playing like that.
Interviewer: Yes?
Tori: Yes. Instead of going to the jungle gym, I just kind of always played.
Interviewer: Now, you uh, went to a conservatory when you were young, didn't you?
Tori: When I was five, I was accepted.
Interviewer: Now what happened when you got to the age of eleven?
Tori: Um. Outta there.
Interviewer: Why?
Tori: We just had real different ideas of what of what we wanted me to be. They wanted me to be a concert pianist. I wanted my own stuff.
Interviewer: And you got kicked out for playing by ear, is that right?
Tori: Well, I just didn't uh, I just didn't do it the way they wanted me to. And um, who says they knew what they were talking about?
Interviewer: Tori, your dad was a preacher--
Tori: --still is.
Interviewer: --still is. Uh, how was it growing up with a preacher as a dad?
Tori: Hm. Well, I'm really close to my dad, but when you're a good Christian girl, it's a bit difficult because you have different ideas on things. Even though I love my dad, our beliefs aren't exactly the same.
Interviewer: Does it affect your music now, the way you're making music now?
Tori: That's where I put all my passion of like a wild cult. And you know it was always good girls and bad girls and I was always liked the bad girls much better than the good girls. And I put it all in my music.
Interviewer: Well, you've done really well. Now you're on a world tour at the moment, where have you been and where are you going to?
Tori: I've just finished the west leg and going to Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, doing Europe, and um, Iceland, and Isreal.
Interviewer: Have you been there yet (Iceland)?
Tori: No.
Interviewer: I wonder what it'd be like?
Tori: I don't know. Probably colder than here? England got warm. I always leave when it gest warm. Something's up.
Interviewer: I hate that. Did you move from the States to London to take your music?
Tori: I live there, yeah.
Interviewer: And why did you move to London?
Tori: Because they didn't get what I was doing. But they do now. They get it now. I'm not here to slag the States. But at the time, they're a bit you have to prove it to them. The English are much more open minded about music, really.
(Guy runs in) Hey Tori, Tori! This is Judy, Judy, Tori! Judy's going to read your palm for you.
Tori: Oh my.
Interviewer: Just a quick one.
Guy: Are you a skeptic?
Judy: It's your stomach that's giving you heaps, by the way - tension. You have to learn to say, maybe, yes I'd love to do it, no I can't do it right now but I'll do it as soon as I can, okay?
Tori: Okay!
Judy: It'll get rid of (unintelligible).
Interviewer: Judy, hey, how do you, um, Judy Ann, sorry, how do you pick that from looking at the back of her hand?
Judy: Well you see, when the hand is closed like that it's a jump how high, but where they are spread apart, where they are more open, they are more organized. They know easily. So the more organized--
Tori: So I don't say no!
[transcribed by Kristen Loftis]
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