Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

There has been evolution in my work. In the beginning I was very much busy with the physical body and the limits of the physical body but that somehow naturally led me to the mental body and how I could deal with that. Stillness is so much harder, especially for three months. It was a big challenge. As a performer it is the most difficult experience one can have. And the interactive experience with the public made it even harder.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are completely disconnected.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.