tori quotes from the stage...

August 30, 2001
London, England

So some of you um, are aware of what happened to a guy called Matthew Shepherd. And um, on the American tour a couple years ago, the uh, girls wanted to sing this one for him. Merman was um, actually written for um, somebody that I know, a gentleman. And the sadness is that um, what these men did to Matthew.

[Someone's cell phone rings]

Maybe that's him calling, now. I hear that's possible, these days. Um, and so I wanna do this for him here, in this place [the church]...

[begins Merman...]