The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.