Growing up as a little, introverted boy, dance was the only way I could communicate. For me, it's the greatest language - no words. Sharing people's stories through the art of movement is magical.

I always wanted to teach dance. I didn't know I'd have a TV career.

When you combine a Texas woman in a competition setting with her child, she gets very serious.

I used to focus so much on winning. I used to be such a perfectionist.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

I've never been one to learn scales and do exercises. Maybe I'm lazy, but I just don't take to that kind of thing. Learning other people's songs is enjoyable, and my fingers tend to go to new places because I'm not playing my music, the stuff that comes naturally to me.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.