We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

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

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

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

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.