I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

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

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

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

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

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

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.