I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you..

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find o….

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline..

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits..

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back….

Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you ne….

When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position..

I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes..

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better..

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead..

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable..

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 ….

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but flounde….

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 i….

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible tha….

Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever..

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not k….

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking a….

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home..

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas..

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways..