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

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

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.

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.