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

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

Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.

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

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.

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.