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

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

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

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.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

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.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.