No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.