As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship – the idea that black people are from outer space, there’s a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.
You don’t see any borders between countries from space. That’s man-made, and one experiences it only when you return to Earth.
I think getting your head in the right mental space is important, and maybe I do need to go back to my rookie vibes to where I’m very happy-go-lucky, nothing really matters.
Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!
I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
I started realizing that music is the one area where I’ve always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I’ve already played or anticipate the notes ahead.
Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.
It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we’ve invested our time and treasure in building a machine that can fly across three billion miles of space to explore the Pluto system.
We can see loss as something missing, but that missing space can be filled with something else, and that creates healing.
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don’t come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur… that’s all me.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space – space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.
There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I’m not going to enjoy.
Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it’s important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.
In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It’s a relief.
That’s what I’m interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.
You don’t go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it’s the human endeavour.
You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they’re not innocent. They take a lot of room in your brain, and you don’t have any space left for your own thoughts. They give you a scripted reality. It’s an ideological tool.
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
