I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.