I just want to create situations where people forget time.

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.

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.'

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.

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

Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.