I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Art is an investigation.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.