Identify the qualities in the person that you lost and cultivate them in yourself; that way, you keep them alive. Also Janet coming into the company. She and I met at a gala. I was ranting about how hard this business is, how people don’t have faith, and she came up to me and quietly said, “I have faith.” That was 23 years ago. She meant it. Oh, and my retiring from performances—deciding that I was no longer going to be in my sweat clothes in the studio. The last full-evening solo work that I did was at the Louvre, in Paris. It was a very special thing. But I had knee and back problems, and I decided to stop dancing. Of course, I still dance when I’m very happy or moved—sometimes in the living room, when guests are over, or at the end of a run by the company that’s had a special energy. In fact, I’m performing my first solo commission in eight years onstage this season. It’s an interesting problem to make it physically low-impact but with deep feeling.