All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.

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

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

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.'

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.