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

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.

You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.

I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.

It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.