I do everything I know how in a dance.

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 think you have to step outside your integrity to live your dream

If a girl is stupid enough to love you after you broke her heart, I guarantee you, she is the one.

They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.

I am not a player to have regrets. I should have stayed at certain clubs longer, but I don't regret.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.