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

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

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.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.