It all started with a Cornflake Girl. Kinda cheesy, isn't it? But I believe in music like a vehicle, a train, a ship or a car which brings you all the emotions of a journey. That journey passed by me in 1994 but it didn't stop, I just felt the air moving as I let it go. It came back some summers later, in 1996, when a Professional Widow was travelling around the clubs of the whole world. This time, the journey tried to stop and speak to me but I couldn't understand it at all.

I think I angered it because when it came back in 1998 it swept me away: a Spark, this time I just couldn't pretend not to listen. The hit was huge and so was the world that it brought to me. The Choirgirl Hotel was the place that I was looking for: call me crazy but somehow it gave a voice to the feelings that I could only draw on a blank sheet. But there was too much, too many things that I couldn't understand at the time. I thanked the journey and tried to go somewhere else to see things from other points of view. It said it would've waited for me to return.

I did find some other sparks, I met many other journeys... So when I came back to it, I found it hanging with some Strange Little Girls. It said it had gone in places I could never imagine and it introduced me to the ladies. We talked so much and they told me to go and see Tori, as it was her last day in concert: being in my city, my beloved janus-like Milan, I thought it was the time to listen for real and not to run away. It was the most powerful performance I've ever seen.

During these years, I filled the missing spots of Tori's journey: she crawled Under the Pink, brought Boys for Pele, went To Venus and Back... she did travel A LOT! So when I was able to understand her better, I could let her music in me and finally concile it with my passion for drawing.

That's why I'm a fan: she inspired me but also taught me that I always got inspiration by all the people that I met and who are with me now. I really feel grateful for that. Thank you.

(believe it or not, this is the real reason for why I'm a fan, chronically. I wanted to "express it" in a less boring manner. Hope I didn't annoy you ^_______^)