I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things!

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.

It's always exciting for me to perform.