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.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.