MARK MORRIS

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

The goal of Sunday is to leave my home as little as possible.

Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.

We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.

I love making up titles.

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good; the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.

I'm very tough.

Sunday is a day of rest.

'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.

As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

I have a beautiful, big bathtub.