Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

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

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

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

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

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 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.