The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.

I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids.

To be in a magazine when you're 20 is okay, but when you do it when you're 65, it's much more fun!

I hate studios. A studio is a black hole. I never use a studio to work. It's very artificial to go to a studio to get new ideas. You have to get new ideas from life, not from the studio. Then you go to the studio to realize the idea.

I had three abortions because I was certain that it would be a disaster for my work.

There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.

There's plenty of talented women. Why do men take over the important positions? It's simple. Love, family, children - a woman doesn't want to sacrifice all of that.

I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad.

I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it.