Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

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

I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.

If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.