For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

Television is completely another medium.

I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.