Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.