I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

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.

When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.