“No demos were done for any of the songs on Pele. Basically, two or three songs on the album and many of the B-sides were written as you hear them there,” says Mark Hawley, [Tori’s husband and sound engineer]. “Marianne and Not the Red Baron – the first time she ever played them and the first time we ever heard them was the performance that you hear. The whole recording process was really special for that reason.” [B-Side – May/June 1996]

“Maryanne Curtis is a girl I went to school with in junior high. She was the kind of person everyone adored, she was just magical. I had written a song about her years ago which I used to play in the bars sometimes. It never went any further than being performed, I didn’t record it. Since then I have always wanted to have Maryanne in a song. She died from a drug overdose when she was 15. It is not known, but I don’t believe it was suicide. I think she took the wrong things together. She is very special to me, and comes to visit in my songs sometimes.”