I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

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

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.