When I coach dancers, I always like to get on the dance floor with them or describe something by showing them.

There are always younger and better dancers fighting to get your place. You get worn down by the fight to try to stay at the top.

I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.

I've come to realise that being on 'Strictly' is like being in another theatre company and performing a live production.

This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.

I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.

Everything is not beautiful at the ballet. It's tough.

I've always been quite famous for my nose.

Ever since I've given up dancing, every physiotherapist or Pilates teacher has said you have to keep moving. If I don't, I'll have a hundred times more injuries because you get weak areas on your body.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.