I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.
The difference is that with Ebola, it is such a devastating disease, and there is still no cure. They're still working on vaccines. The fact of the matter with polio, there is a cure; there is a vaccine.
Everybody's saying, you know, 'You're so heroic and so on despite of the polio that you had and so on.' Look, I had polio when I was four. So when you're four years old, you know, you get used to things very, very quickly.
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.
When you live in a small country such as Israel, the dream of any musician is to go abroad.
I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!
I have always been very proud of my Jewish heritage, which has greatly influenced my music, my world view, and my work as an advocate for individuals whom society often leaves behind.
An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.
