Alvin Ailey

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.