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.

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.

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

I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.