I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

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.

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

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

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