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

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.