I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

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.

I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.