I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

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.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.