We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Any idea that takes away sweet sleeps from you will eventually bring to you sweet life. Be diligent and willing to stay awake until your good is better and your better becomes excellent!

Writers are the wind that sail words across the page.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

We are going to repeal the Obama-Clinton defense sequester and we are going to rebuild the military of the United States which is very, sadly, depleted.

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.