If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.

Cancer is an emotional disease.

I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

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

When I did "Seven Easy Pieces," I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had to really go through the documentation, look through the sources, to ask the witnesses who saw it.