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

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

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

Nobody is born a dancer.

I cannot stand authority.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.