It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

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.

I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?

...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed, and as a person, I have to adapt to those changes.

I think the most important thing for an actor is to stay current and stay relevant, and those are probably the hardest things to do.

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.