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

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.

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.

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.

My body is not a temple. It’s a skip,

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

Never laugh at your wife’s choices… you’re one of them

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.

There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.