When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's it, and then life is really finished.

That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are completely disconnected.

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.

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

But what is art other than revealing human nature?