What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are taken out of context and how we're forced to view them as objects, as relics, as sculpture- static. But what's interesting is what it allows me to do in my head in terms of imagining what the possibilities are or imagining the role in which they played within a particular culture which I'm fascinated by.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.