The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

You create a friendship on a level that you've never done before. The basic kind of experience is to basically give love to total strangers all the time, and that really changed everything in me. And this piece transformed me more than any other one before. I saw my entire life differently. What do I have to do? What is my passion on this planet? I'm much more focused than I ever was before.

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

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

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.

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

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.