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 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.

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.

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

It’s okay to glance at the light of another. But when you look to long, it will blind you from seeing your own.

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.

Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'

Didacticism is the death of art.

I never draw except with brush and paint.

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

We'll have 130 million phone devices that have Flash by the end of the year.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.