When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

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.

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.

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

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