While we’re on Satan, where did the idea to cover Slayer’s ‘Raining Blood’ come from?
Umm . . . I was talking to Justin Meldal-Johnsen I think, who was the bass player with Beck at the time. I was doing covers of men for Strange Little Girls and he had mentioned Slayer to me — and this is when the Taliban was in full power. When I heard ‘Raining Blood’ I just had this picture at the time, of this beautiful vulva [laughs] . . . raining blood over this male abusive force. That was how ‘Raining Blood’ came about — that was the picture I saw when I recorded it, and what I see to this day when I hear it [laughs]. Did you actually like the Slayer version? Yeah . . . but I like vulvas too. [Laughs] That’s quite a headline! [laughs] Yeah, leave it to Tori, the minister’s daughter. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a musician? Oh. You know . . . I don’t know. That’s a really good question. I mean a part of me wonders if I wouldn’t have gone undercover trying to free women who are caught in these horrible human trafficking situations. I could see myself just walking i
