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

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.