One of the most important things is to establish yourself locally. It's really hard to do that without a place that we consider home. Now, people know where they can come catch us.

We pay for lights and air conditioning. They don't want to go in debt for us being able to use it, but that's about it.

What it comes down to is, they're interested in different ways of expression through art. They certainly focus most of their attention on dance, but in every discussion we have about this, we all agree that there's a lot of cross-pollination, if you will, that should be out there.

What's great about concrete is it's nearly unlimited.

I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color.

I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.