I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.

I don't know what "normal" means, anyway.