I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure your own performance area, you can indulge yourself in different territories. Fashion is one. And ballet is absolutely a fantasy, because it deals with the bodies in a different way.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

I really like dark, politically incorrect humor.