I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.