You are absolutely enough the way you are.

People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.

I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training... you name it. I've got to!

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.

I'm a tough coach, but on the other side of that is me telling them to go all out, "because you're great, because I don't want you to fail, because you were born to do this and you have a dream."

For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.