when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

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.

I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

You can start on a clean slate or make excuses, but you can't do both.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.

If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama.

Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing.

Devi energy (shakti) is there within all of us. Devi is not somewhere else, not in some other world. It is within us - Devi Shakti