I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

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.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.