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.

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

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

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?

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way

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