We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.

You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.