The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

The music, of course, is important, but it's the energy that I bring to it that I think the public appreciate the most.

You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

A poor child who receives high-quality early childhood development is 40 percent less likely to need special education, twice as likely to attend college and dramatically more likely to survive childhood.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

My family endured a big crisis after my father's business went bankrupt and we went from having a comfortable life to having virtually nothing. I saw from that moment how fragile and precarious life can be and you have to work very hard not just to survive but also to accomplish something in life and fulfill your dreams.