"Hey Jupiter was especially hard. I'd made 13 calls from all over the world. I was getting ready to catch a plane from Phoenix to do the Vegas show, and I rang his number again, but no one was picking up. And in that moment, after all the...you know, the fiery red head behaviour, drawing my lines, making my threats...I was lying there alone, feeling incredibly weak. Feeling like there are not enough sold-out shows, like it doesn't matter that every American show is sold out, because I'm only alive when I'm on a stage with a piano. The rest of the time I'm just this shell. So, when I wrote Hey Jupiter, it was like, how could we have been so cruel? Because when we started it, there was so much love. Real caring. And I sit here hating someone who I had been head over heels in love with. Taking jets to meet up for four hours and then flying back to do a show the next night.'" - Time Out 12/20/95

"That's where I was literally at the bottom. I was on tour when all this happened and I remember Oklahoma City being totally rock-bottom. 'It was like I was thinking, 'Just you wait, Henry Higgins,' and as I sat there on my knees in Oklahoma City, waiting for the phone to ring needing to feed, I'd reached the end of my rope." - New York post 1/12/96

"Funnily enough, the songs sometimes fought back." Although 'Hey Jupiter' finds Amos singing "and I thought I wouldn't have to be/With you as something new," the lyric sheet renders the couplet as "and I thought you'd see with me/You wouldn't have to be something new." What happened? "It kept coming back that way. I kept correcting it. Seventeen times, revision after revision, it kept coming back. I looked at it, and said, '[It] needs to hold both of them. The girl needs to be saying it while the other voice is saying it differently, because they can't communicate anymore'" - Baltimore Sun 1/21/96

"...I want to play something if I could, that kind of refers to something we've been talking about. Somebody talked about when I was walking in what inspired this record. There's a lot of...when you go after the hidden parts in yourself there's a little giggle to be had, but there's also a little tear. The men who brought me to this awareness...people say, do you hate men? And I go, God, you've missed the whole point. Because there's a lot of big chocolate hearts on this record. And as much as sometimes you know it's over you still...it doesn't mean that it doesn't get your heart sometimes. So I just want to play a chocolate heart song." - Live 105 2/7/96

"I have a lot of gay friends who have taught me many things. Because of their experiences, they have taught me how to look at life differently. I want to be very open. I think they have gone through a lot to come out. And I really respect anybody who stands by their truth. I just like communicating with people. And I wanted to communicate with people who I think have taken a very truthful stand--in the face of a lot of judgement. Because I wasn't a part of that world that much. I didn't see how fierce it could be in this day and age. It shocks me sometimes. And it comes through in my work--like with 'Hey Jupiter', 'Are you gay/are you blue.'" - Aquarian Weekly 2/21/96

"On Hey Jupiter, she knows the way she has looked at relationships with men and put them on a pedestal is over. There's a sense of incredible loss because I knew that I would never be able to see the same way again. It's freeing, and [yet] there's a sense of grieving with that." - Ft. Lauderdale Herald 4/12/96

"I was at my lowest. I was at a hotel in Phoenix, and I realized that for once there wasn't a man I could turn to." - Spin 5/96

"And the album going into 'Hey Jupiter' and that is the point where she knows it's over with this particular relationship, or ships, and it's not ever gonna be what it was again. It is never going back. That's where the whole record turns on its axis." - BSide May/June 96

"'Hey Jupiter' is me just saying that's it--I've had enough, I just can't continue." - Dallas Observer 6/96

"I was going through something in my life, and I felt the presence at the end of my bed of a ghost of someone I recognized. I was in a hotel room in Arizona during the UtP tour. I followed this ghost into the bathroom. I turned on all the water...the shower. I let the room steam up...the water became part of the sound, almost like an orchestra... and this ghost drew a picture for me in the mirror in the steam. The way I interpreted the picture was that earth and jupiter were in love billions of years ago, then they were separated, and now they are billions of miles apart, and this is earth's love song to jupiter." - Yahoo online chat 4/13/98

(video) "I guess it's quite telling when people, especially people you know very well, people who know you'd gobble up Royal Jelly - the most foul of foul - before you'd put a flesh and blood cigarette in your mouth (I'm a BLOW-BACK girl myself). Anyway, when they never fail to ask you for a light...MTV had a problem with all the pyrotechnics so we had to cut some of the fire sequences down, particularly the ending. However, since this is not their's or anyone else's release, I've chosen to stand by the ending that Earl (Sebastian) and I really felt was the truth of the woman in Jupiter. A craving of hunger or burning for someone is seduction when she's kind. When she turns, you are truly in hell and the humiliation of your need is the cherry on top for her." - Tori Stories promo booklet

Question: What's Hey Jupiter about? Is the line about "choosing between the shower and the bath" about being gay or straight? Tori: (Sings the entire song to find the lyric. Attitude waits with baited breath before she announces) Yes! (Laughs) I was having a hard time with a guy who couldn't decided what he was drawn to. And I mean these are big questions. It's not just do we get on and is there chemistry? It's do I have the right gear? Can I get on this plane with you? And I know he found it difficult too." - Attitude 10/01