Tori Amos, Neil Gaiman

Listening to Tori's first album Little Earthquakes while reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels is highly recommended as a near to other level of consciousness experience.

Her song "Tear In Your Hand", possibly the most emotional of her early tracks, contains the line "if you need me, me and Neil'll be hanging out with the Dream King". Neil is, of course, Neil Gaimain, and the Dream King is The Sandman.

Neil and Tori have been friends for years and often reference each other and each other's work. In the novel Stardust (from which the movie was taken) there is a great chapter with a talking tree. Tori plays the tree. Or the tree is Tori. (If you read it you'll get it). In a couple of his novels, in the intros, he refers to her as "Mrs Hawley" (her husband's name is Mark Hawley).

We highly recommend reading his work while listening to hers.