My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.

I never had vocal lessons, dance classes, or any of the things my peers had.

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.