In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.

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 hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.

If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

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