Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.