On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

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.

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

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.