In the end all collaborations are love stories.

I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.

I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.

In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.