Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

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

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

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

What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.

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