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.

The great love of my life is music.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

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

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.

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.