Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.