I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.