You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

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

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.