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Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's just what the ballet structure, I think, kind of puts inside of you.

We're dancing from here, from inside, not from outside. You could look at anybody throwing their leg and kick their leg up and a million pirouettes and do all kinds of tricks and stuff like that. But that's not what dance is really about.

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

I am the 'Cosmic Dancer' who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on 'Electric Warrior.' I'm not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn't look cool. That's the way I would do it at home.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.