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

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

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

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

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

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.