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Amos provided an anecdotal story about Cloud On My Tongue before playing it live in Atlanta 1999. A man (presumably Anthony Keidis based on other stories) approached her to run away to Borneo, but she was already in a relationship and had to decline.
From Tori's Maze website, Monday 8 August 2011, by Cécile Desbrun:
Tori explained the song was about a personal experience she had with a man but never gave really clear details on the matter. What she told over the years was that during the Little Earthquakes World Tour, a very hot man came to see her backstage and asked her to take her away for four days to go to Borneo in the tropics, a place he claimed he was coming from. Tori was with Eric Rosse at the time and he was there that day, so she apparently had to decline, but felt seduced to the point “the word ’cloning’ really did come into mind," as she witfully said before singing the song at a show (Atlanta) in 1999. What kept fans talking, however, was that the lyrics of the song and Tori’s anecdote matched almost perfectly what she had told about her meeting with Red Hot Chili Peppers’ leader Anthony Kiedis, that occured around the same time.
During an audio interview (available on the Summertime bootleg), she recounted the way they met in the following terms:
"The funniest - the most embarrassing thing was Anthony Kiedis from the Chili Peppers came up to me and said ’Hi, I really like your music’ and…oh I can’t tell you what he said next! But I said, ’What’s your name?’ (laughs) And I felt so - it wasn’t because I’m not a fan of the music it’s just that he had the most interesting get up. I didn’t know it was a human being. He had this aviator cap on and this whole get up and I didn’t realize who it was. And when I found out…I had read an article he had written in Details on the plane a month before I met him and it said - now I’m telling you something you can’t like tell him because it’d be very embarrassing - but he said what he would do — how much he loved women and how he would, um, romance a woman. And with so many men in the business being god knows what. You don’t know if they’re into dinosaurs or what they’re into these days. It was just a real - all the - all the, uh, women I was with were completely just blushing, and we’re, you know…so when I met him and I found out who it was, all I could think about was ’I feel like I’m 13 years old. I have to leave because…’ Um, I should just shut my mouth! I’m sorry, but it was an interesting embarrassing moment because, you know, it’s hard not to like Anthony. Anthony is just somebody that — let’s be honest about it — he’s just somebody that you could run away with. He’s that kind of person. But, you know, he’d run away with 10 million women, and I’m not a habit. I’m a lifestyle. I will not be a habit for a man ever so…it can never happen."
Something that Tori didn’t say but that is very well know however, was that Anthony spent a long time in Borneo around 1994 and often talked about it. He has also long hair (“hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair”) and many tattoos (“You’re already in there/I’ll be wearing your tattoo”) so fans were very fast to suspect that Kiedis was the famous man that came to see Tori backstage and inspired her “Cloud On My Tongue ” and even argued that the cover of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ album One Hot minute (1995) was a nod to Tori since we can see a drawing representing a redhead playing the piano, where is sat… a fairy, Tori’s beloved magical creatures she talked a lot about at the time. Tori never identified the rock-star as the inspiration behind the song and often made a point of saying “It’s not who you think” when she told the anecdote of the man in Borneo in concert.
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