I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.

Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.