The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named.

I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

Misery is a communicable disease.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.