Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

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 cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.