Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.

Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.

I do believe deeply in perfection. I'm never satisfied.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [...] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?

Lift your head up high, and scream to the world. I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl.

When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.