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Tori's Bookshelf
Tori said: "We're taught how to balance our checking accounts but not how to scream at the teller. This teaches us how to handle our emotions." [Seventeen - November 1999]
Tori also said: "There are books out there that I recommend for people that want to go into the psyche. Anything by Marion Woodman, powerful stuff." [AOL chat - September 29, 1999]
Tori said: "Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite writers and has been a huge influence in my life. His book American Gods is right on the money as far as I'm concerened. Gods from other cultures that were brought over by the settlers and then abandoned and ended up as morticians somewhere, or gas station attendants (laughs)." [Performing Songwriter - January 2002]
Tori said: "I'm currently reading Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magicial Powers of Creatures Great & Small by Ted Andrews. I got this book when I was in South Dakota, and it's very popular with the Native American community. Whichever page you turn to, there's help and inspiration to keep your life in balance." [Sunday Express - November 23, 2003]
Tori said: "Robert A. Johnson's Balancing Heaven & Earth. He s a Jungian mystic. I call him mystic because he's about the age of Dalai Lama now, and he's, to me, like Joseph Campbell. He's one of our great thinkers." [Performing Songwriter - January 2002]
Tori said: "I've always been fascinated with bloodlines: family trees. I think of music this way and instruments this way. Like this book that I think is really stimulating, not just because of the content but because of the family tree, is Bloodline of the Holy Grail by a guy called Laurence Gardner. He's quite the respected genealogist, and it's the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene." [All Music zine - October 1999]
Tori said: "And there's one more book that is an absolute, absolute, absolute must. Bringers of the Dawn. It's a must." [BAM - March 11, 1994]
Tori said: "All these lost voices in our history -- this book was so important in rediscovering them. I used the book as a reference work while I was writing my album Scarlet's Walk." [The Mercury News - April 3, 2003]
Tori said: "That's the level I'm striving for." [The Mercury News - April 3, 2003]
Tori also said: "...The people who influence on a personal level, who turned you on to what artist, maybe that person is out of your life. Like, there are people I don't really know anymore who turned me on to, say, Sylvia Plath. It's strange how I have no idea where this person is, but my life would have taken a different turn if I didn't have it." [Allmusic - October 1999]
Tori said: "My mother would read 'The Raven' from her well worn collected works of Edgar Allan Poe to send me off to the land of dream." [The Guardian - May 15, 2020]
Tori said: "It's about seeing your body as a special instrument and how to look at is as not a thing, but a gift." [Seventeen - November 1999]
Tori said: "The book I give as a gift is Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer -- a light read for anyone's Happy Birthday." [The Guardian - May 15, 2020]
Tori said: "Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel cracked me wide open. Her memoir filled with ghosts, from unfinished stories to unborn children, cut straight to my heart and rattled my bones." [The Guardian - May 15, 2020]
Tori said: "It's great to see how archetypes exist in each of us. You'll begin to see yourself as part of a lineage." [Seventeen - November 1999]
Tori said: "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, in a translation of the original Coptic Gospel of Mary by Jean-Yves Leloup, was the gospel that my mother Mary and I read together. We found another layer of Jesus's teachings through her. My father, the Rev Dr Amos, was not so keen on my mum being so inspired by this gospel, so we kept it sacred and close to our hearts and between us." [The Guardian - May 15, 2020]
Tori said: "I was a big fan of Joseph Campbell and reading his works, and reading different mythologies, Celtic mythologies, Native American mythologies, Greek mythologies..." [Westwood One - February 27, 1992]
Christopher Smith, writing for Performing Songwriter magazine said: "Tori would appreciate the comparison to another intellectual rebel of whom she is an avid reader, Joseph Campbell, the brilliant, scoffed at, and eventually respected anthropologist who saw universal threads in the timeless world tapestry of narrative." [Performing Songwriter - September 1998]
Tori said: "Sarah Kendzior has been studying Central Asian autocrats for decades. She has a podcast called Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa that has been exposing the ties of the Trump administration to the Russian mafia. Currently, I am reading her new book Hiding in Plain Sight." [The Guardian - May 15, 2020]
Tori said: "Past the Mission is about a girl who refuses to be a victim anymore. But she has to face a lot of thought patterns to do that. I wrote this when I was reading the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. It talks about different theories on Christ. It talks a lot about Mary Magdalene. It's an underlying theme about how the church, the mission, has suppressed all this truth down through the years -- the Goddess energy. They refer to Mary Magdalene as the Black Madonna. She had this cult following in France. They believe that she came to the shores pregnant. When they say the Holy Grail, they mean the Holy Blood, the Blood Royal in her body, Jesus baby. And some scholars believe this. The other parts don't necessarily ring right, but there have been these secret societies. That's what I'm talking about also in Space Dog. There are loads of secret societies, this is only one of them." [Really Deep Thoughts - Winter 1995]
Tori said: "Laughing is sometimes the only medicine that pulls me from the gloom. Nora Ephron's I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman is pure gold." [The Guardian - May 15, 2020]
Tori said: "The definition of comfort for me is inspiration. Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks has been my travelling companion on more than one journey." [The Guardian - May 15, 2020]
Tori said: "I'm reading this to my daughter Natashya -- she's 2½ -- and she seems very much drawn to the story and the pictures. If there's a scary lady involved anywhere, my daughter is right there with it." [The Mercury News - April 3, 2003]
Tori said:
Tori said: "Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me not only underscored my experience as a female singer-songwriter in the music industry but probably rang true for most women globally. I wish I could have written any of her books." [The Guardian - May 15, 2020]
Tori said: "As a teenager I was required to read Mythology by Edith Hamilton. Little did I know that would spark a passion for all myths." [The Guardian - May 15, 2020]
Tori said: "I didn't ever want this book to end... Hunter, Islington, Door--these characters are part of my life now... I'm over the moon about this book." [from the Neverwhere book sleeve]
Tori said: "Strange how we sometimes raise our hands when we're a part in achieving something because we can't see our value. Also strange how we can't raise our hand when there's an argument because of course we would never argue, we would never stir it up. We would never say something oh so subtly below the belt that nobody picked up on. Jung calls this working with your shadow. There are books out there that I recommend for people that want to go into the psyche. He's a Jungian. Robert Johnson, he wrote a book called Owning Your Own Shadow which I think is powerful." [AOL chat - September 29, 1999]
Tori also said: "This is about how not to put your monsters on other people or take on other people's monsters. It's about power." [Seventeen - November 1999]
Tori said: "In high school, I was assigned Milton's Samson Agonistes. Which meant, to my mum's disappointment, that I never got around to Paradise Lost." [The Guardian - May 15, 2020]
Tori said: "In 1990 I discovered Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman and wrote a song that references the Dream King and Neil. He called me up saying he really liked it, and we've been pals now for almost 30 years." [The Guardian - May 15, 2020]
Tori has recommended to many people this 6-cassette set, which is about 9 hours of talks from Marion Woodman.
Tori said: "Yes. I have it right here. Zora Neal Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel. [Reads from back] 'There's no book more important to me,' says Alice Walker, who wrote Possessing the Secret of Joy." [BAM - March 11, 1994]
Tori said: "I've read one recently I can't put down. It's called The Virgin Suicides. It's twisted, but it opened my eyes a lot. It brings me back to a time I remember really, really well ." [Take to the Sky - May 1996]
misc writings
misc writings
misc writings
Pippa Passes
Tori said: "...My mother was such an influence. Through her, I was exposed at an early age to Emily Dickenson and other writers she loved. She would always read Pippa Passes to me, by Robert Browning, that whole love story. She'd have tears in her eyes, and I'd be with her before kindergarten, crying. She worked in a record store, and she'd bring me home her favorites, like Nat 'King' Cole." [Rolling Stone - October 31, 2002]
misc writings
On Loveline on December 3, 2003, Tori mentioned certain Jungians she had read: James Hollis and James Hilburn.
Early in 1998 Tori did a Yahoo chat and mentioned
The Paperboy
An Underachiever's Diary
History of the World
An Egyptian Hyroglyphic Dictionary
The Code Of Kings:
In the Land of Winter
The Antelope Wife
Quarantine
An Ocean in Iowa
Girlfriend in a Coma
A Spiritual Tourist:
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