I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.

I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.