My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
I did not grow up singing Yiddish.
I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.
Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
