Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

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.

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.