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

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

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.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

Running a company is pretty demanding.