People don't connect the girl that sang 'Mickey' with the girl who was one of the seven original Lockers or the same girl who was in 'Easy Rider' or the same girl who choreographed David Bowie, Tina Turner, and Bette Midler tours. It's like I've led five lives.
I have an inspired career other than just singing.
Steps come up all the time, but not dances.
I did 'Viva Las Vegas' with Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret. By standing in for Ann-Margret for a week, I learned the feeling of being a star in a musical number.
Start dancing immediately. Run to the closest dance studio, and study the style of dance of the music you love. If you love hip-hop music, go to a hip-hop class. If you love salsa, take a salsa class. It will become infectious and you'll keep going back.
You street-dance in a club, you're performing. Whether anybody sees me is a whole other thing. But it doesn't matter, because it fills my void.
I feel very connected to Las Vegas. It's my hometown.
Dance has been my lover, my doctor. I know I have my health because of this.
It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.
Creating a dance is like coming up with a Chuck Berry riff.
Mickey' is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a one-hit wonder.
The '60s was leather soles and a wooden floor. That's why the twist, the simplest dance, was such a sensation. Everyone could do it. They just swivel their feet and the upper body fell naturally in the opposite direction.
I'm surprised by the success of anything I do, but it's gratifying when the public approves.
A diva without a venue is a maniac.
Some guy decided that it would be funny to put that in my Wikipedia entry. He was adamant that 'Mickey' was about Micky Dolenz. I choreographed the 'Head' movie but I didn't really know Micky at all. I knew Davy Jones much better.
I think, actually, I was the first person to ever sign a simultaneous video and recording deal with a record company.
I was a cheerleader in grammar school. There were no cheerleaders in that school I made them have them.
I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.
On a TV show, for instance, dancers have to be paid for a week and a half rehearsal time. So unless they're vital to a production, they're just not used.
I don't think my story is an unusual story for a lot of music performers. But I think that since 1982, worldwide, I have probably seen less than 3,000 American dollars in royalties.
