The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

As long as my ballets are danced, I will live.

I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

The only critic is a full house.

You live as long as you dance.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.