The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

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.

Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace.

I should love her like there is an ache that won't go away unless I'm with her.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

I try to dream about peaceful things, beaches, that is what I cannot understand. Why are they chasing me?

in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.