I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

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 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.

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.

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

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

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.