In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

I'm sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians who dream of going to bed at night and waking up the next morning to find the Israelis gone.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.