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

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.

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

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

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.

A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.