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.

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

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

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.

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

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.