From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.

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

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

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.

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

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

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.

Some revolutions resemble restorations, at least at first glance.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

Biggest influence: my mother.

When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing.

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.