I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

The more you know, the better you can imagine.

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?

We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.

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