In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it, the more pleasurable it becomes. And then when it feeds out, it's able to penetrate the mind and create a reaction.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.

I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.

We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into our strengths. Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.