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New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, open city where anything could happen and anyone could be star. Rents were cheap, creativity was encouraged, and bottle service was still 20 years away. That was the era the Club Kids came into.

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

I loved dancing as a young girl.

I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.

Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid.

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

Dance kind of was always just a part of my natural state as a child. It's something that, whenever music was playing, I was dancing.

I love New York. I was in New York at the age of 13, at the School of American Ballet, walking around the subways in my little bunhead and thinking I was so cool.