I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

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

If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

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.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

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

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.