 In past interviews, Amos has stated how songs such as "Crucify" and "Precious Things" were written while living behind this church, listening to endless sermons and worship-songs for hours at a time, alone, hurt and depressed following her failure as a musician (1988's "Y Kant Tori Read"), and her role as a victim and survivor of physical and sexual assault.It was a threshold moment for Amos, providing her a time of respite, solace and a bit of reflection regarding her life and past.Memories of this time and these places, coupled with some of her own reflections and conclusions as a wife, mother and maturing woman, led to a spontaneous creative spell for the new album.