To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

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.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.