When you're in a groove, you're not spinning your wheels; you're moving forward in a straight and narrow path without pauses or hitches. You're unwavering, undeviating, and unparalleled in your purpose. A groove is the best place in the world. Because when you are in it, you have the freedom to explore, where everything you question leads you to new avenues and new routes.

Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce; the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

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

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.