I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

The challenge is maintaining your interest over a long career, as opposed to pushing hard with no longevity. I'm surprised that I've been able to dance as long as I have.

It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.