It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.