You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

The body is a sacred garment.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

Pity is a corroding thing.

It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.