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

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

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

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

I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.