One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor.

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

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

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.

When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.