Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

I want to die consciously, without fear, and without anger. Three things. I see my friends dying with fear and anger and it's terrible. My grandmother kept her clothes ready for 40 years for her funeral. She lived to 103! But she kept the clothes in a cupboard. As the styles changed, she changed the clothes! I think if I start now with my funeral, it's good.

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

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.