Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

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

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.