I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.

As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

I want people to look like people when they're dancing.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

I have a beautiful, big bathtub.

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good, the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

Every child dances, and then you learn not to.

I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.

Ask your father to convince you, not to go your way. You will win, i bet.

Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations initiate and largely determine how you experience your reality.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

I'm the kind of person who always wants more.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.