To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

Usually, English personalities are difficult they dont take criticism easily.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

Being spontaneous, it's what saved me.

A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

I think often that God is guiding me.

Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.