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A dancer's career is short - you just keep going until your legs pack up.

A dancer's life is hard - it is so physically demanding, and at any moment, you could have an injury that could end your career.

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their natural expression of the best they can possibly be comes out of them because there is no boundary to hold them back... That's the mentality that I'm trying to create, recreate and hold on to forever.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

There's no dancer alive better than those of the 1950s and 1960s. It's only the energy that changes. Every now and then, someone like me comes along, and people say, 'Oh, this guy is this new thing.' But that's not so. There is no me without them. The tradition just goes on.

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.