No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

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 think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

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

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

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