I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

I'm not afraid to be a Russian Jewish romantic in my approach to anything, even in my animal divinities, or anything about the feeling.

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse.

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.

I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

If God give you a status, don't turn yourself to a statue. Don't become a monument. God still want to reside inside you but not in a monument.

Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.

I like being at home and cooking.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.