The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.