My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

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When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the...

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My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there.

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I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your...

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Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

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In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would...

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When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

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You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

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I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

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I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

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