Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.