People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

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

That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are completely disconnected.

The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

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