I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

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

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.