Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working