The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.

The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.