Excellence is the name of the game.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.