I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

The more you know, the better you can imagine.

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.