I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn’t catch on right away – but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.