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

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.

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.

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

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

I was very much of a tomboy.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.