When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.