Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.

All bleeding eventually stops.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

There's so much world to see, what's stopping you from flying free?

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

To me, authentic love is a sacred encounter we all yearn for.

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.