I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

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.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

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

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.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.