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

The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

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

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.