Cheryl Burke Quotes

I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia.

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble.

Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of the '80s and started putting on 'shows' in the apartment, most of them set to Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album. In my mind, there was a full lighting rig behind me... but it was just a couch.

I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of 'KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.' The minute I saw Gene and Paul... it was all over. I knew that's what I wanted to do.

I feel that when people hire me they know it's going to be a collaboration and that they hire me for what I give on all sorts of levels, from my movement to the emotion I bring to the project, the passion, all of it.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

I'm not saying I'll never go solo - never is a long time - but I've always been onstage with someone else. That way, you're in it together, and you can feel, together, when the songs are right.

I never play as well without these guys; the best I have ever been creatively has been with Pearl Jam.

I'm a singer who moves well.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family.

Once you learn how to work inside the ring - once you learn how to tell a story - then you can come to a big company like the WWE and learn the extra stuff, like the video, the pyro, the music, and that adds to everything you can do.

I feel proud to be a member of SHINee. It is a great team with a unique identity.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

I was never the brains behind the band - that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package.

I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

I wanna get backup singers, but I don't think I will ever get backup dancers.

There is definitely an art to the dance that is being in a band.

Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.

For an entertainer, part of the thing you do is just style. And the coke did help me get into great runs of pure form.

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

Probably the most fun I've ever had, actually, acting. Because it was the perfect extension of the stuff that I'd started to do on Late Night With David Letterman, and when I look back on all my work, it was probably the best possible incarnation of Chris Elliott, of me.