“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”

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

“I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.”

“The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine”

“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”

“I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?”

“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.”