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As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

Art is about paying attention.

No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.

There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

I'm a real workaholic.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

It's a little hard to speak when you're not supposed to move.

Ninety percent of the people in the world end up with the wrong person. And that's what makes the jukebox spin.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.

The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

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.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

And there was a beautiful view,
But nobody could see.
'Cause everyone in the Island was saiyng,
Look at me! Look at me!

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.

They say that Heaven is like TV ... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

And there was a beutiful view
But nobody could see
Cause everybody on the island
Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.

It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

I think women are excellent social critics.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much better.

I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good."

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

Your eyes. It's a day's worth of work to look into them.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

The expert is someone who carries malpractice insurance.