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Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.

Mozart is my first strength.

Twyla's works are complex, and they really push you as an athlete and push you spiritually as well. Before doing a Twyla ballet, you have to get everything in order: You have to get a good night's sleep, you have to eat well, you have to be in great shape, and then you just go and leave it all out there.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.