I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

We know that our cells are speaking to each other.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.