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

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.

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.