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.

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

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

I explained it when I danced it.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

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.