You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

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

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

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.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.