Tori Amos says hours after seeing the movie, she wrote the song Me And A Gun. What Tori never anticipated was that her own breakthrough would trigger the breakthroughs of so many others. We were getting hundreds of letters every week. Tori began to discover that in the crowds waiting outside the concert halls were survivors of rape. People waiting as long as eight hours for a chance to whisper their story or pass her a letter.
Tori never misses an opportunity to listen or share.
I won't say that she saved my life, because I don't think she'd like that. But she definitely helped me to find the strength to save myself. Five years ago, Shannon was raped after a high school party. One of the guests held her down and attacked her. I remember just clinging to the metal on the bed and looking out the window and feeling like I was dying.