I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

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

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