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

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

The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.

Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor.

For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.