I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.

The way I perform or the setup is always same - just me and a microphone and the text - and they usually have some relation of how physical that stack becomes. When I'm editing it together, the density of the papers is an indicator to be like, "You need to stop."

Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

I've got a twin sister who's an artist and growing up I was always "the loud one." She's not actually quiet at all, but I would rather fill a gap with chatter and she would just let a gap be. So there was no inclination to actually perform.

When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it.

I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.

I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'