Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

I've never been called the black sheep. Everybody in my family had something weird about them, like, 'What's wrong with you?!' We all were black sheep.

We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the first page, it said that the prayer book was in thanks to the sponsorship of this family in a temple in Kansas City. For me, it was a moment when I really kind of connected in a real serious way with my personal identity as a Jew.

I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.