Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

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

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.