The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

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

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.