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

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

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

I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.