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

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

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.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

I read Russian literature a lot.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.