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

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.

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.

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

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.