I Cannot Stand Authority.

I Like To Go To Anybody Else's Birthday, And If I'm Invited I'm A Good Guest. But I Never Celebrate My Birthdays. I Really Don't Care.

When A Dancer Comes Onstage, He Is Not Just A Blank Slate That The Choreographer Has Written On. Behind Him He Has All The Decisions He Has Made In Life. Each Time, He Has Chosen, And In What He Is Onstage, You See The Result Of Those Choices. You Are Looking At The Person He Is, And The Person Who, At This Point, He Cannot Help But Be Exceptional Dancers, In My Experience, Are Also Exceptional People, People With An Attitude Toward Life, A Kind Of Quest, And An Internal Quality. They Know Who They Are, And They Show This To You, Willingly.

I Want To Do Exactly What I Want To Do. I'd Rather Gamble On The Box Office Than Beg For A Grant.

I Always Had A Kind Of Strange Relationship With New York City, With Total Love Affair In The Beginning Then Retreat During The Kind Of Conservatives Of Politics And Real Estate And Business Came, And Then I Am Again Kind Of Fighting For The Justice To The City, To Open The City For The Artists.

I Really Reject That Kind Of Comparison That Says, Oh, He Is The Best. This Is The Second Best. There Is No Such Thing.