“If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.”

I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.

I never considered myself a performance artist.

I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.

So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.

Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.

If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations.

And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.

The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.

Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.

People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.

I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.

There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.

Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.

People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.

Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.

Being older now, grown, I’m like, ‘What do we really do that’s fun?’ I’m kind of corny when you think about it. What could I rhyme about? Let me see, um, I gotta pay the rent today.

I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.

Age doesn’t affect driving – how do you like that?

People like to hear the word ‘love.’

It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.

I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?

We all tend to be in the same circles – people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.