The audience creates its own personality, I’ve noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I’m fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.
I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd – was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.
People are really suffering these days. There’s a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
All of nature talks to me – if I could just figure out what it’s saying – trees are swinging in the breeze. They’re talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They’re all talking. They’re talking to me.
I kind of didn’t believe the doctors when they came over and they said you’re not going to be able to walk again. I’m sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.
The best thing about the term ‘performance artist’ is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
When love is gone, there’s always justice.
Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
I am a New Yorker, one; I’m an artist, two; I’m a woman, three.
I think women are excellent social critics.
What happens when you’re in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don’t want to bore your friends with it. And they’ve heard about the crash so many times.
I’m not usually where I think I am. It’s kind of spooky.
I’m an average enough person to point to the things I’ve gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
I have written a lot about snakes. There’s something pretty primordial about it.
I don’t take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
I have written a few children’s books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called “The Package”, and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that’s Wig Therapy.
My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.