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

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

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.

I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

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.

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.

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