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.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

I want to die consciously, without fear, and without anger. Three things. I see my friends dying with fear and anger and it's terrible. My grandmother kept her clothes ready for 40 years for her funeral. She lived to 103! But she kept the clothes in a cupboard. As the styles changed, she changed the clothes! I think if I start now with my funeral, it's good.

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

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.