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I Tried For A While To Be An Agricultural Worker And Was Hopelessly Bored. To Me It Was Meaningless. I Would Stand Around In Heaps Of Manure And Sings About The Beauty Of The Work I Wasn't Doing.

No Heirloom Of Humankind Captures The Past As Do Art And Language.

Despite A Large Body Of Work In Films, Tv, Theatre And Concerts, I Am Viewed By Many As A Jewish Artist. I Do Not Resent The Label, Except For The Fact That I Disapprove Of Labels In General.

We Jews Have A Special Attachment To The Book. The Study Of Page After Page In Tomes Yellowing With Age Was Obligatory.

I Am Not, And Have Never Been, In Favor Of Boycotting Israel.