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

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

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

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.