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.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

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.

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.