I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

I'm not afraid to be a Russian Jewish romantic in my approach to anything, even in my animal divinities, or anything about the feeling.

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.

There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse.

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.

I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!

The most inspirational feeling I can come up with is.......The feeling of presence.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless - but they can be stolen.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.

Then he leaned down, breath warm on my neck as he whispered his next words. "You've wondered if I felt differently about you since your abilities diminished. Let this serve as your answer.

It's an unbelievably tight race for hideous today.

Just put on the lens and go.

I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.