I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.