I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

I'm considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.