How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

I have a sordid past.

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

I think music is another language.

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

Its a collective truth that slavery is wrong that child labor is wrong that gross inequality is wrong. God didnt send it.

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.