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" All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer. "
Up
Broadway
Mean
" As a straight man, I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance. "
Man
Dance
People
" At my high school, it was the first time they had TV monitors up, and before class would start, they would have CMT and the music videos playing. "
Music
School
Start
" Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance. "
Love
People
World
" For me, Facebook and Twitter was always just a way for me to reach out to the fans of the show, to communicate with my friends who where in the business, and I never felt like I wanted to use it to further my career in some way. I don't know that it has the power or the ability to do that. I just never thought about it in those terms. "
Thought
Me
Friends
" For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor. "
Actor
Musician
Me
" For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic. "
Me
Career
Time
" I don't write happy songs. "
Songs
Write
Happy
" If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile. "
Someone
You
Performance
" I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.' "
Arts
Up
Small
" I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music. "
Own
My Own
Music
" I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night. "
Show
My Own
Night
" I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics. "
Physics
Science
Universe
" I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them. "
Fool
True
Child
" I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance. "
Me
Guitar
Always
" I think we all have demons, but my demons aren't that bad. They're productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live. "
Demons
Man
Live
" It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.' "
Stage
Say
Learn
" It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.' "
Person
See
Someone
" I've got to say I'm a Jon Snow guy for sure. "
Sure
Snow
Say
" I was a disruptive student. I hated my teachers, especially my Spanish teacher. When I went to see the musical 'Matilda,' the horrible Miss Trunchbull brought back all sorts of horrible memories. I'd go into Spanish class, put on headphones, and sing at the top of my lungs until they threw me out. "
Teachers
Me
Memories
" I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and Grammys and whatever, and I will always remember waiting in line for government cheese and bread and having food stamps. I had a tough life, and I will never not know the way I was raised and the place where I was raised. "
Best
Waiting
Winning
" I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.' "
Love
West
Would
" My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are. "
Stand
Boy
You
" Nobody's ever really dead on 'Game of Thrones.' "
Dead
Really
Nobody
" No one ever tells you what the grieving process is going to be like. The process of losing a parent or ending a show or vocal injuries - they all bring on their own special breed of dismay... You just have to ride the wave. You don't have any other choice. "
Losing
Injuries
Ride
" 'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis. "
Kid
Amazing
Pretend
" Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything. "
Social Media
Own
Media
" There's never been a question of not being a part of this business or not being a part of this industry - I love it - it's in my blood; it's always been in my blood. It's just a part of who I am. "
I Am
Love
Blood
" There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s blaring out the songs of Neil Diamond, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin. "
Doors
Mother
Saturday
" The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor. "
Able
First
Once
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