It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

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.

Being spontaneous, it's what saved me.

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

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