Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

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

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

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.

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

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

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.

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.

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

Be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, In that case, you should always be a unicorn.

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.