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

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

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

I hope that something can be done in our piece that reflects on the attention that needs to be paid to the most vulnerable people, like refugees in the world right now, that have to not be politicized, but saved, literally.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

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