No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

The unique must be fulfilled.

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.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.