I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.

Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.

I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise up out of the water. He said we'd make it, and we did. I believe we all have an angel watching us.