History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.