Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory

I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest in someone's home. Carlos and I went to my beach house.

It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.