I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.

Acting is not my language at all.

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

You don't measure life by receiving awards.