I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.