Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.

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.

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

Treat each class as if it were your first.

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.

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

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