People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.'

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.

Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts

On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

You're only as good as your dumbest competitor.

There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model

A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.