The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

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.

Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.

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

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.