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 cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

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

He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.