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

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults

Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

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.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.