It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.

It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.