But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.

People who are different are dangerous; they belong to another tribe; they want our lands and our women.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.