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

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

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

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

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

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.