Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

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

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.