"What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about." — Twyla Tharp

Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an athlete is and to challenge themselves in the same way, to the same physical degree.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.