Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.

You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

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.