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

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.