Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

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

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.