Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.

People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.