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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.

I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very inspiring for me, I'd done all this traveling around, I came back living with my parents, everyone around me was like they're living in a soap opera.