Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.

My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I transcribed one of her melodies, and had some of the hospice participants sing it, because they said they liked to sing. Their singing is very raw, but I'm going to use it for the final work.

I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.