Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

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

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.