I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

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.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

Talking about [Donald] Trump, there's nothing wrong with Trump. He's who he is. It's wrong with us, who let him [win]. That's what's wrong. It's not that he's going to change, but the people who think like him.

We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.