One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn't pay electricity.

There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.

Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

Any free meal is a good meal, you know?

All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.