It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

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

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.