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" I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful. "

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" Sometimes when I do a musical, they'll be a scene that comes up, and I'm like, 'Oh, I hate this scene,' but you get through it. "

" I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there, I know what that's like.' "

" My life is my life, and I'll live it. "

" The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle. "

" Tina Fey writes crazy, off-color, racist, hilarious stuff for '30 Rock,' but it's always funny because you're in this almost two-dimensional world where there's Jenna Maroney and these over-the-top characters. That's the framework. "

" The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that? "

" I love Jason Robert Brown. "

" There's no way you can deliver 'the greatest musical of the century.' "

" I've always had a plan for my music career. "

" I was never late to a show more often than 'La Cage.' Because I lived close, and I didn't really do anything in that show. "

" Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me. "

Musical Theater

" I guess I originally got the bug for performing when I was in choirs and school stuff and all that. I don't know when. I guess I decided to do it because a lot of people said I was good, and I liked the attention. "

" Being from the theatre, I am always interpreting someone else's thoughts and feelings. "

" I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in. "

" I was really proud to be in that show. I will never forget. I got the script to 'Millie,' and I'm flipping through the script and saying, 'Boy, I have some lines... I have a big song.' I was 25 years old and had never been on Broadway before. I got to the end of the script, and I was really nervous and excited. I realized I had a lot to do. "

" I was in 'Hair,' which didn't work in London, but it was a show we all believed in. "

" At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute 'The Book of Mormon' for 'The Bible: The Musical' or 'The Quran: The Musical.' "

" I feel like we're constantly getting better musically, and more of what's in my heart and head is coming through. "

" Maybe some of the pronouns have changed, but I've always been honest in my music. "

" I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.' "

" The tech rehearsal for Brits is so different. They have little glasses of wine and walk around saying, 'Lovely, darling, lovely.' "

" It's really hard to go into a creative process and not think, 'I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.' "

" I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.' "

" When people smile in your direction when you do something, you tend to continue to do it. "

" I'm tired of all the angry stuff out there. "

" Some scenes are just more people's thing than others, and I know that my Gay New York is truly whatever I make of it. If I want her loud and lively, she's there. If I want sunsets and starlight, Battery Park, here I come. "

" I can't live without my music player. "

" I'm not much for formality. "

" When I did 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' it was almost every 'first' I could have imagined: I dreamt someday being on Broadway, and then dreamt someday playing a lead on Broadway, and then dreamt someday of getting to originate a role, and then getting a Tony nomination. It all happened at once. I was just terrified. "

" I think 'Hair' is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience - it needs to be seen and heard. "