I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.

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