With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use the rubble of the old to raise up the new ones.

The supernova sun would be cooler than the fire lighting our desire.

Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.

You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.

New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.

I always say people can call me anything they want as long as they don't call me late for supper.

As a woman, you feel that you shouldnt want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasnt it?