I Think I Had A Lot Of

I Like To Be Provocative. I Like To Make People Think. I Like To Touch People's Hearts. And If I Can Do All Three Of Those Things In One Fell Swoop, Then I Feel Like I've Really Accomplished Something.

I Want To Appeal To People's Sense Of Humanity And Interconnectedness. I Feel Like I Have The Platform I'm Standing On For A Reason. It's Not Just To Make People Happy And Get People To Dance And Sing, To Feel An Escape. It's Also To Get People To Listen And To Bring Important Issues To The Forefront.

I've Studied Kabbalah, As You Know, For Many Years, So There Are A Lot Of Things I Do That One Would Associate With Practising Judaism. I Hear The Torah Every Saturday. I Observe Shabbat. I Say Certain Prayers. My Son Was Bar Mitzvahed. So This Appears Like I'm Jewish, But These Rituals Are Connected To What I Describe As The Tree Of Life Consciousness And Have More To Do With The Idea Of Being An Israelite, Not Jewish.

Manipulating People, That's What I'm Good At

When I First Came To New York I Was A Dancer, And A French Record Label Offered Me A Recording Contract And I Had To Go To Paris To Do It. So I Went There And That's How I Really Got Into The Music Business. But I Didn't Like What I Was Doing When I Got There, So I Left, And I Never Did A Record There.