The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

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

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.