You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.

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.

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.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

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

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.