If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Those eyes, they were my own kind of madness

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

Some people come to work and that's exactly what it is - work.

Evie-you-GAH!" Lend shouted, and I looked up at him, surprised.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

The best advice I was given if that if you want to succeed and you want to achieve, you have to learn how to handle failures.

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.