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.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

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

I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.