Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

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.

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.

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

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

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.

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.