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

I read Russian literature a lot.

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

I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.

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

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.