I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

When I first came USA, I didn't feel this was my home. This was where I was studying, and then my home was now rejecting me.

A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public.

I know that there is absolutely good in the world.

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.