People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

Art comes from life, not from the studio