It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different perspective - one that's a little more stabilized.

I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely.