It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

Throughout my career, I have criticized my every single step and I am open to any criticism.

I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'

I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.'