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

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

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

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

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

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