Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

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

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.