When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.

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

I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.