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

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

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

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.

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.

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.