Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.