Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.
Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.
You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.