I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

I like the energy of live performance.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.

I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.

I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer.

When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.