A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

God is simply love.

Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life.

Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.

I felt a real strong connection and still do with Hanukkah. So it started out by doing concerts on Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights tour, and then, yeah, let's make some Hanukkah songs. Let me make a Hanukkah song that kids can listen to, party to and get the spirituality of it, because it is not just about dreidels and having fun.