You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

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

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

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.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

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.