Baryshnikov was and is my idol. He's the man. He was someone I've looked up to all throughout my life.
American ballet, for me, is Stanley Williams.
I enjoy what I do, so why not just go about it in a good way, a positive way he muses. I don't concern myself with becoming a star. I just go out there and try to give an honest performance and if, when I get offstage, I'm a complete schmuck, then that's me.
Dancing exacts a toll. I don't dance for applause. But there have definitely been moments, when I've been injured, when I say to myself, 'To come back to this, is it really worth it. It's just tough. It takes so much out of you physically and there's a lot of stress involved. Emotionally, it can drain you. I travel around a lot and it's great, it's exciting, but I don't see any of it. I do my shows and I'm off to the next place.
Somedays, I just don't want to take (ballet) class.
After ballet, I'd just want to work on motorcycles. I've got two.
The single best thing about being a male ballet dancer is, uh, that you're workin' with women all day, and you're workin' hands-on, with women all day, and they're pretty fit, and, you know, that's the thing people don't know they're missing out on.