Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

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

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.