The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

With the Gulf spill, I absolutely merged in the time when I had that infection. I couldn't get out of the Gulf spill. There were so many similarities: the drains and the siphoning and the tubes. And also in the way the earth was hurt, the ocean was bleeding. Remember the video cams of the oil gushing? I couldn't stop watching that.

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.