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.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.