My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.

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

If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

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.

Pity is a corroding thing.