The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.