I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.

It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.