Because we had no money when I was growing up, when I started dancing, I wasn't allowed to be frivolous - my mum made me go to every lesson because she was paying for it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.
My mum and dad teach, and all my brothers and sisters have been in 'Riverdance' and so forth. So I was forced to become a dancer; it's part of my family history.
I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none of this professional garbage going on about how much can you get for this or that or the other, or any of the kinds of things that insecurity can sometimes promote. Sometimes it's for the wrong reasons.'
If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.
I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.
When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.
At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
I did a lot of dancing when I was young.
My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring our friends home. My brother had a skiffle group, and there would often be dancing in the house. And my parents would come and dance with us.