I learned to love dance for its own sake.

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

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.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.