I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

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.

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.

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

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.

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?

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