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.

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

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

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.