A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.

Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

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

The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.