"It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there."

"I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby."

"It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split."

"If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'."

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."

"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go."

"It is a steadfast truth that every second given to regret is a precious second stolen from creation — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees."