I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

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.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.