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 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.

I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.