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

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.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

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

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

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