No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

Everyone just talks about the problems our teenage girls are facing and what they're dealing with. But there was, to me, a void in how they were being served or helped. I thought, 'Wow, I'd love to create something.'

I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.

I love to sing. Mostly about love and sex.

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.