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

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

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.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

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