If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.