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

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

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.

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

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.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Nobody is born a dancer.