Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

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.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.