“Dancing is my obsession. My life.”

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”

“Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.”

“I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.”

“I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.”

“The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.”

“No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.”