is 27, with an enormous amount of pressure and work, and
many famous musicians have died at 27. She recognized
the danger in that, the danger of getting lost, the danger
of not coping with the pressure. Another important thing
for me is talking about body drama. Body drama happens
frequently to the pop musicians. Performance is all about
energy and when the concert is over and the public leaves,
all this energy stays with the body of the performer; this
energy can destroy you, this energy makes you take drugs,
this energy makes you overdose and die. It’s because they
don’t have the key and don’t know how to transfer this energy to something else instead of self destructing. That’s
why they come to me. I know how to deal with this kind of
energy. I think it is very important to cross these borders
and also to help.
It’s funny you say that, because I think of you as a teacher.
I’m glad that you can see that. I started teaching at a very
early age and teaching was not just a means to make money, as many young artists do, but was part of the concept
of the work. At some point as an artist you will have enough
experience to share it unconditionally to the younger generation and everybody else. That’s really important. Whatever
you learn, you have to give it to others.
Your idea of feminism and female energy changed after
participating in an all women lecture. I was curious as
to how it changed and how you felt about it afterwards?
Basically, I have always felt that all women have such
enormous power and that we are superior. I never in any
way as a female felt like I’ve been repressed, never. I
think when you claim that power, that’s it, you actually
have that. Just the fact that we possess the power to give
life that we create in our stomach’s is enormous. This
is the biggest thing. I think that the entire culture has
established that the male, because of training of that
kind of power, tries to overpower the woman and she is
forced to play a fragile role, but she is actually not delicate. I’ve studied a lot of things, especially my Montenegro culture and in the 19th century the Montenegrin
women would have 5-10 children and the men would go
to war and in many cases were killed. The woman was
left to survive. So what did she do? She started wearing
male clothes, stopped her period, drew on a mustache,
and started changing physically to look like a man, and
then the woman would became the head of the family.
Our body is a miracle. It is incredible because I never
had this idea myself. At the lecture, part of it was the
women, and me being there with them, it was powerful. I
really understood that power I’ve been talking about but
never experienced. Two and half thousand women in one
room, and we were are all together. And as I undressed I
thought, “I’ve never undressed for women, only men.” I
took my clothes off and I stood in front of them and everyone stood up and they all had this powerful energy. It
was incredible, not one woman took a photograph of that
moment. It just says so much. It would be a man who