... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.

I explained it when I danced it.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.