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

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.