I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

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 want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

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.