dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.

Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

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.

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.