“I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.”

“I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.”

“I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”

“I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.”

“I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.”

“When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.”

“I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.”