A Head full of Diamonds With Shoes filled of Stone

Here in this great autumnal forest where I walk barefoot there are paths on which we might have walked together;

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

God damn it, there are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.

People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.

winnie what's your aesthetic nowadays

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless. I wrote an article for Artforum in the mideighties that had a line in it that the rock critic Greil Marcus quoted a lot: “People pay money to see others believe in themselves.” Meaning, the higher the chance you can fall down in public, the more value the culture places on what you do. Unlike, say a writer or a painter, when you’re onstage you can’t hide from other people, or from yourself either. I’ve spent a lot of time in Berlin, and the Germans have all these great words with multiple meanings inside them. A few visits ago, I came across one of those words, Maskenfreiheit. It means “the freedom conferred by masks.