There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here.

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

All the best days start with a latte and a time trip.

All I have to do is find someone who has something to say that will enrich my life and they can't get rid of me.

If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

Do you think trees are the new birds? Don’t answer that right away.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children.