I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.

When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.