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.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

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

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

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