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

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body.

The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.

I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is "How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?

Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.