My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

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.

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

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.

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.