I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

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

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

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

When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.