I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

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

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

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.