Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I said, "Thank you," and then they said to me, "Could you talk some more?" And I said, "Why?" and they answered, "Most of us are in solitary confinement, so the moment you finish talking, they take us back to our cells. We like hanging out here together."

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.

I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.