My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

I hope that something can be done in our piece that reflects on the attention that needs to be paid to the most vulnerable people, like refugees in the world right now, that have to not be politicized, but saved, literally.

I want to protect everyone in the world, and I believe the way to protect them is to stop the killing universally. Create opportunity and better systems of living and existing, quality of life to humanity all over the world.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.