Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

You live as long as you dance.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

As long as my ballets are danced, I will live.

I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny.

I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy