If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.