I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

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.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

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

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.