It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.
I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.
After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.
The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.
It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.
My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.