When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

I'm not going to doubt my life.

Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.