Jamaica Inn (4:01)

Tori Amos: “There’s a song Jamaica Inn that I wrote as I was driving along the cliffs in Cornwall on a ‘beautiful’ English day. And all of a sudden the gales started to come in. My mind started to wander and I pulled over on a cliff. I started to think about the story that I’d been told by some of the locals. When a ship would run a ground the wreckers would come in and take everything. I started to think about this story that was taking over my car in that moment. Jamaica Inn walked into my Saab and she said, ‘You might not like my story because I’m not gonna tell you how it ends yet. You need to travel it with me and we’re going to have to explore your deepest fears.’ What always stops me is betrayal. And what scares me is if I betray someone.”