As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.

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

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.