Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.