Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

I just want to keep writing music.