By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.

There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?

I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.

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.

The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.