My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet.

Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.

I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.

You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.

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