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.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.