Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.