In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.

I understand things that are American, for better or worse.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.