The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.