The Shazzamity

About the video, Nick Knight the director explained “I wanted to strip her down. She’s actually quite raw, womanly and sexy. There’s a different side to her that doesn’t come across normally in her videos. That’s what I asked her to do and that’s what she did.” When asked if Björk was the one who plays the sexual acts as well, he explained “I gave her [Björk] a Sony Mini DV camera and asked her to shoot her own private scenes […] She asked me to make a film about her love life, so I merely gave it back to her and said ‘Film your love life’.”

“For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they’re dykes, and they’re always good fun.”

“If I saw someone destroy a piano I’d fuckin’ kill ‘em. Wouldn’t think twice. [It’s] Just defending your best friend!”

“Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much. But you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.”

“I’m too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?”  -Tori Amos

“This is very simple in the world of chicks: some are hoochies, some are not, and some should never try to be. It’s no different from the idea of sports. Now, I can go on my little rowing machine for four times a week, twenty-two minutes a time, and I can feel as if I flirt with the sporting world. Similar to the idea that a woman can put on something cuter for her man, for those moments, and flirt with garments that a hoochie woman might be pushing. But never for one moment should you get confused. My little rowing machine and I cannot consider ourselves athletes. Wearing the same garment does not a hoochie woman make. So if you are a true hoochie woman, may garments below the navel always be in your future. If you are not, then please don’t throw away your cotton zippy jacket.”

— Tori Amos (Tori Amos: Piece by Piece)

“After all what were you really looking for. And I wonder when will I learn. Blue isn’t red. Everybody knows this…”

“We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” - Robert J. McCracken

“My mind is occupied, my heart is healing, my voice in progress…”

“Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.” - S.D. Gordon

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…

You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” - Neil Gaiman (English born American Novelist)