Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.

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

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.