You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

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.

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.

The next best thing after finishing writing a chapter is starting a new one.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.

So you don't have time for concealer, you have time for powder for when you start crying later about how some boy doesn't like you.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.