You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

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

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

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

I was very much of a tomboy.

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.