All my images are self-portraits, even when I’m not in them.
Pop is about speaking everybody’s language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you’re dealing with Pop.
I can certainly identify with The Villain. A Villain is someone who has a past, who is strongly opinionated, fearless, doesn’t get intimated by anything, and went beyond suffering. It’s an empowerment figure.
Sometimes people are shocked by what I do, but I’m not trying to be liked, I speak my mind and I don’t care what people think. I truly do not compromise on who I am.
I love the idea of reincarnation, so just in case it doesn’t exist, I decided to be different people in the same lifetime.
I’m a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I’m a Rococo person. I don’t draw straight lines.
I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert everything. I am like the originals buffoons. I love the rules because I can break them.
France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.
A red nose is the clown’s mask and my moustache is mine.
Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.
I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative.
I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression’s best friend.
Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I’m never spontaneous, I’m completely premeditated.
I love to laugh. Specially at myself. Sometimes I spend hours doing it.
When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn’t interested in princes and princesses, only by the villains.
What I wear on and off stage is my mask. You see, a mask doesn’t hide you, it exposes you.
I’m a Joker. Dangerous and silly at the same time.
The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.