It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

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.

I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.

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

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.