You cannot leave the house to take the garbage out without full-on makeup and your hair done. You have to fight for your man out there.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

The best part of work is always working with people and getting to know them and having the sense that you're not actually working.

As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.