If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies.

you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.

We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.

The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.