In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

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.

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

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

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

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.