Raspberry Swirl

“OK, Now I don’t do hair-pie. Oh god, I hope my Dad doesn’t watch this, he can’t deal with this stuff, but I tell him he should cause one of these days one of the nieces or nephews are going to ‘come out’, but anyway, my husband and I are ‘Married’ but my friend Beene is, we are married. Now she has had some real bad relationships, there is this one, if I ever see him I’m gonna kick his ass and well. I’m gonna kick his ass right now. This is for Beene.” [performs Raspberry Swirl] [VH1 Storytellers - October 24, 1998]

“Sometimes I feel like I become the male figure for my girlfriends and so um, its unfortunate that I can’t be a man, because I think I’d be in love with all of them. But that’s not my inclination, um, you know, I love them very much, so this song is about… ‘Things are getting desperate when all the boys cant be men, everybody knows I’m her friend, everybody knows I’m her man.’ and… well, they love it when I sing it to them.” [giggles] [from the choirgirl hotel electronic press kit video]

“The animus in me is Raspberry Swirl. I’m in love with my women friends, but I just don’t eat pussy. [Tori laughs]. But I’m still in love with them. If I had a different sensibility, then you know I think I could, you know, really fulfill someone down there, where a lot of men in their lives don’t. And eating pussy is a metaphor, too - it’s about crawling in their, being with their juices, really being with them.” [Alternative Press - July 1998]