Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.