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.

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

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

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

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.