'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.

I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.

Cultivate the garden within

There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy.

[They showed me photos of the once-smooth, lush, green lawn.] It was beautiful, ... Walking on it was like walking on a plush carpet.