A biography for Michele Lamyhasn’t been written yet.
“I had the chance - maybe it was karma - to run in my late teens into the path of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari at university and at the open psychiatric hospital La Borde outside of Paris.”
“Anselm Kiefer made a book for me. He was taking pictures of me and my friends when we weren't posing, just all walking along. It was the best piece of art anybody could give me.”
“I like to be in the middle of chaos.”
“I like the Berber women in North Africa, I like the signs on their faces, I like everything, I like the chador on the head, I like to be squatting on the ground.”
“I say yes, because I like to say yes.”
“The Diamond Foundry is a mystery to me! Maybe a way to recreate the world... who knows! They are disruptors at the forefront of technology.”
“Me, I love to perform.”
“It's not a thing by itself. It's an accessory to a person - my jewellery is part of me.”
“I have no concept of suburban life, where you have to drive an hour to work.”
“We know life is short, so we try to make the best of it. I need infinite lives. We all have infinite lives.”
“I wanted to make a place to be. A place on the water. A place where all my friends can come. And where I can be surprised by new people too.”
“My tattoos and dyed fingers are part of the story - similar to the way tribal woman wear jewellery.”
“I don't always need music, I can be with silence but not absolute silence. For example, I love the desert but there is always noise in the sand, in the wind.”
“I learnt I had to change the mercury in my back fillings. So I found this 'new age,' as I call him, dentist with a ponytail, and this guy was using a pendulum to see what alloy I should have for my teeth.”
“Wrinkles are chic.”
“For me, fighting is not a bad word. It's about believing in something and making it happen.”
“There are a lot of people I like, and I like the way they see things.”
“I think I have the nose to find the right people to do things, but I'm more cutthroat if I find somebody better, let's say, until I get the thing, because I will just go to the next.”
“I don't cook unless it's scrambled eggs.”
“If it was not for this Rick Owens, I would still be in Venice, California.”