If you want to go east, don't go west.

I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.

I don't want people to remember me going through the motions.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town.