Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something out.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.