What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

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

The only critic is a full house.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

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

You live as long as you dance.