The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.