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Selected Interviews Bits About Spirituality


I always enjoyed to explore the dark, mysterious and demonised. I was always in touch with my inner instincts and animalistic senses. I felt often like a caged animal amongst the "domesticated" human apathy around me... well, I guess I still do, really. I always felt connected to the energy of the vampire and werewolf, who represent supernatural awareness and our animalistic wild instincts (see my blog article "Vampires"). I have done pretty many daring and strange things in my life and I tend to end up in interesting situations, which make great stories of course, and thus, often, are the inspiration for my art.

I am a very spiritual person. To me this means to be free-thinking, spiritual and magical, not at all religious! Spirituality means to expand and free your mind and to grow. It’s about being the person you really want to be. Religion often means closing the mind, thus it restricts people, and I really hate restrictions. I have always valued freedom and independence and I follow my heart and my own values no matter what. And to me the term "Pagan" does not mean walking around in historical clothing... I'm quite modern, thank you.

To me it’s all about understanding and exploring our natural impulses. Thus it's also about respect towards all our fellow creatures and I work for animals and their needs. I also draw a lot of wisdom from Buddhist and eastern philosophies...
I love warm places, gothic atmospheric cities, and I love to photograph old buildings. I love to drive fast with the windows down and I love to be amongst the waves in the sea (not in shark waters though).
I consider myself to be some kind of world citizen, or even nomad in spirit. I love to be independent, and I'm quite restless. I do have a very cosy home of course, but I travel as often as I can.

I strife for challenge and life's intensities. Life is for moving forward and changing, transformation. Even the downs I enjoy (sometimes), they make you stronger. Life is what you choose to focus on. Our society is focused on materialistic, superficial everyday life and handy skills. Art and spiritual understanding are things often not taken seriously, yet, to me, it is their life that is like the Matrix: non-real. "Real" life to me is somewhere else.


(About living, fans and spiritual quests; taken from Life magazine):

Some people totally get what I do and I am truly grateful to have so many amazing spirited individuals around as friends, associates and fans. I love and admire those that seek their own personal freedom! But of course there are many not so smart people out there that have some crazy ideas about who I am, like those that think that I still am in the same place I was ten years ago, or indeed that I live in a primitive hut in the woods or something, it's kind of irritating...
But in the end, people believe about in an artist what they want to believe. Some totally get you, others don't, and some have this really weird fantasy about you and they create this image of you that is totally not you at all. It's kind of funny and one really has to take it with a sense of humour and self-irony... But I guess it's like this for most artists, and we can't really control or even care what people out there want to believe and write about us...


(Environmental Issues)

Well, I opine the world is almost broken: climatic changes (for example, Spain will be a desert in some decades - or years, if things don't change), terrorism, the material world where the most important thing is to buy and to consume. Well, I opine human beings are very selfish, without respect and honour and a little "stupid" in general; I have almost lost my faith in Humanity. What do you think?
Yes, it is important that every person starts to take responsibility for the environment. It is horrifying that so many people don't care about what they do to the environment... they just take life for granted and throw out their garbage, let the water run, clean themselves with rolls and rolls of toilet paper and don't waste a thought about where it all comes from and where it will go. And this really annoys me about people. A lot of them don't own any respect... not to the environment, not to other people, not to the opposite sex, not to animals and not even to themselves. They practice this low trashy behaviour that makes me embarrassed to call myself a human. Self-awareness - and thus awareness - of one's environment is a very important lesson that people need to learn again...

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