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““The only difference between dancing and fucking," he said in those days, "is that you don't fuck in front of a live band.””

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I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time.

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I studied all kinds of dance, all types of music. I got good grades. I started hitting the recording studio around 13.

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“dances with mine as if we’ve been doing this our whole”

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My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now…

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I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

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If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

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I'm not a dancer. Never took a dance class.

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