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

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

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.

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.