I'm Thought Of As A Cool, Unemotional

When You Are On Stage In Front Of An Audience, You Want To Engage The Entire Crowd. If A Thousand People Are In The Theater, You Need To Dance A Thousand Different Ways, Not One-thousandth Of A Way.

I Didn't Care Too Much For Ballet, Because You Had To Be More Disciplined, And You Sort Of Looked Like Everyone Else. It Required A Certain Kind Of Conformity That I Didn't Feel Like I Wanted To Do.

I Loved Tests Because It Was Another Form Of Competing, A Healthy Competition.

In Fact, Ballet Companies Did Not Exist In The Midwest When I Was A Child.

You Don't Learn From A Situation Where You Do Something Well. You Enjoy It And You Give Yourself Credit, But You Don't Really Learn From That. You Learn From Trial And Error, Trial And Error, All The Time.