We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.

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

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.