I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.