Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.

I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.

During the first couple of years of 'Dancing with the Stars,' I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.

I've never been supercritical about my body.

I really do want to have a child.

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.

Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

I don't get the regular AIDS test anymore. I get the roundabout AIDS test. I ask my friend Brian, "Do you know anybody who has AIDS?". He says, "No". I say, "Cool, because you know me."

People who read are people who dream.

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.