I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

Audiences are audiences.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

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.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

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

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.