“I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see a lecture, meet people that are artists, go to the cinema. For me, it’s like food.”

I love costumes in dance, I think it’s very important. The clothes for dancing not only make you feel like somebody else, but it makes you move in a different way.

I work as a dancer, but I also work as a choreographer with couples that have a lot of tension between them, and as dancer and as a choreographer, being in this situation is very difficult. You see the energy doesn’t flow, and it’s very tense.

No man or woman is uniformly successful… we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.

If I were doing five cop shows, I’d probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, “Listen to this!”

Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities – especially visually – with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story.