I do not like a haphazard connection between the dances and the music.

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible.

I think dancing is an emotional experience.

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.

If I would've fought Andre Ward in my prime, I would've beat him.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse

The time for thinkers has come.

I like to make sure that I'm believable. If I don't believe me, then there's a lot of people that don't believe me, but if I can believe that I'm doing it, then I know the audience will, too.

When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.