Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

I came to believe in the idea of parallel realities. I think that the reality we see now is a certain frequency, and that we’re all on the same frequency, so we’re visible to each other, but that it’s possible to change frequencies. To enter a different reality. And I think that there are hundreds of these realities.

There is a moment in your life when you realize that you don’t actually need anything. That life isn’t about things.

I believe that universal knowledge is everywhere around us. It’s only a question of how we can achieve that kind of understanding. Many people have experienced moments when something in their brain says, “Oh my God, now I understand.” And those moments feel so rare, but the knowledge is always out there for the taking. You only have to tune out all

Sometimes what the dead leave behind tells us things our dear ones would never have revealed to us while they were alive.

The mind is such a changeable organism—in the blink of an eye it can go anywhere. And you have to always bring it back. You’re thinking you’re in the present, and then you suddenly realize that you are who knows where—deep in the jungles of the Amazon, perhaps. But it was really important always to come back. Because the central thing was my connec

When it came to art, I only cared about content: what a work meant. The whole point of Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful was to destroy that image of beauty. Because I had come to believe that art must be disturbing, art must ask questions, art must predict the future. If art is just political, it becomes like newspaper. It can be use

Performance is all about state of mind. So in order to get to the right state of mind, you have to be mentally and physically prepared.

What is art? I feel that if

we see art as something isolated, something holy and separate from everything, that means it’s not life. Art must be a part of life. Art has to belong to everybody.