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

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

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.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.