Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

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.

If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated.

I am pushing through every barrier to fulfill my dream.

Wind is wind.

Because I was there that day, and so were you.

I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet.

The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.

I don't want to be a politician. I want to be a leader.