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.

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

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.

Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.