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

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

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

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.