In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

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

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

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.

Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

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