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.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

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

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

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