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

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.

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

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.