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.

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

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.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.