You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

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

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.

The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.