I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.

There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.