The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

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