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...

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

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

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.