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.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

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.

I don't know what's on the other side.

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

I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise up out of the water. He said we'd make it, and we did. I believe we all have an angel watching us.