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

You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with four gold medals! If she were alive, maybe she'd think I was doing well!

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

When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

It was incredible, Lady Gaga came to see the piece. She didn't sit with me, but it was all atwitter. Every single kid from 12 to 18 ran to see Lady Gaga and then Lady Gaga left and they stayed. And they stayed another day another day and it created a completely different culture, a different audience that I never had before.

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