The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make it easy on yourself. Find a working environment where the prospect of wrestling with your muse doesn't scare you, doesn't shut you down. It should make you want to be there, and once you find it, stick with it. To get the creative habit, you need a working environment that's habit-forming. All preferred working states, no matter how eccentric, have one thing in common: When you enter into them, they compel you to get started.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

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

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.