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.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.

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

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

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.