Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.

The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.

The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam.

I felt guilty because I survived.

The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.

In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.

When I love, I feel endorphins rushing through, that is my joy.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.

I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.

I like big crowds. I find it easier to focus.

In a world where globalisation wants to turn everybody into the same thing, I think that anything that allows you to go to another place or be in another world has got to be celebrated.

Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.

If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power.

I guess [coming out publicly] seems like a weight off my shoulders. I’ve been playing a lot better than I’ve ever played before. I think I’m just enjoying myself and I’m happy.