We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

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

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it. Without the time and effort invested in getting ready to create, you can be hit by a thunderbolt and it'll just leave you stunned.

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.