I don’t want to live under the tyranny of normality.
It’s partly to do with the praise lavished on him when he’s introduced to audiences. “I feel that people are saying, ‘You’re doing beautiful work’; and that doesn’t interest me because what they are really saying is, ‘I’m glad you’re doing it, not me.’ But it’s mainly that I find I have more fun, I’m more myself, when I’m with people who are a little bit crazy. And our people are a little bit crazy. I mean that they are not bothered by the need to conform—to be dressed as they should, to do as they should. I don’t want to be part of a world where everybody has to be the same, and to win—‘I succeed, therefore I am.’ I don’t want to live under the tyranny of normality.”
(Source: “Jean of Ark”—Intelligent Life Magazine July/August 2014)