In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.

Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.