Interviewer: Is it true you left the states because they were a little bit square on the mind and you had to go to London?
Tori: Well, I didn't go to England for the food.
Interviewer: Are they more open-minded in London than they are in the States.
Tori: Much more musically. They don't put things in a box.
Interviewer: Are you always standing like that - sitting like that at a piano when you are singing? I mean, having some moves with the piano...
Tori: Well you know, what it is, I'm a minister's daughter and I couldn't move my hips anywhere, it wasn't allowed in the house except on the piano stool.
Interviewer: That's the reason why you have quite a...(implying) Does your father look at you while you are playing piano?
Tori: That's my father.
Interviewer: You like the crossing between the sex and the spirit in your album and in your words, in your meaning.
Tori: Well, that's what the goddess represents. The goddess was about spirit, mind, heart, and physical.
Interviewer: Can you do it back for the TV program, please? Can you do it the same explanation and how I would sell it in French, okay?
Tori: Should, should I just say...
Interviewer: No, no, you just move--
Tori: You talk and I move.
(Demonstrates the goddess)
Interviewer: Your brand new album, you're working on it.
Tori: Working.
Interviewer: Would it be in the same kind of music?
Tori: Well, I don't get my fix unless I sit at the piano stool. So you know I'm gonna be at the piano. No, on the album, I play with other people but live, I play alone.
[transcribed by Kristen Loftis]
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