People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

Art comes from life, not from the studio

There are two kinds of loss of hope, one is the feeling when your pulse slows down and you are going to die, and there's nothing else left. The other loss of hope is when you're living in a country which becomes insecure, and you don't know what the future is. That's existential.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.