Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.
The audience is the source of the energy that I project back to them.
I first of all have a problem with the term 'avant-garde'. Because it is a military term, it means the guard that runs before the rest of the soldiers. And if I want to see myself presented in military terms, I don't want to be part of that. I want to be one of the deserters. I want to be in the woods, maybe.
After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.
When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a snapshot of life. (On the year 1905)
You have first to experience what you want to express.