Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.