In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

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

Creativity is an act of defiance.

Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

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

There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.