Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.