I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

I'm definitely very careful about the things that I want to be a part of, but it's also important for me to get dance out there to more people.

I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.

In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

Ballet.something pure in this crazy world

You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.