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

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

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.