I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

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.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

Inspiration builds self-esteem, it builds communities, and it builds lives. It creates paths where previous paths didn’t exist.

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.