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

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.