I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it's the first thing that I do. I've been doing it for years and years. So I want to come back here [to Israel] to see the places that I read about every day. It's very important to my faith to feed [my] spirit in Israel.