I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.

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.

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.