A dancer's life is all about repetition.

I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...