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

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

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.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

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

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.