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.

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

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

I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

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