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.

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

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

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

I’m really alive when I’m on stage.