I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.

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.

If you look at the lives of artists, sitting in nature, painting, having the freedom. I think it's over. I think we're living in such a difficult moment of human development. Artists have more responsibility than ever before.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.

The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.