Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.

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

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.