A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

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.