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" I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.' "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything. "

" 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. "

" It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.' "

" 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. "

" I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night. "

" 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. "

" When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them. "

" All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer. "

" 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.' "

" We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel. "

" I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics. "

" I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music. "

" For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor. "

" If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile. "

" I don't write happy songs. "

" 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. "

" When my friends and I grew up, we had 'Full House,' 'Growing Pains' and 'Roseanne.' These sitcoms were about something, about real people in a sense. They sort of super-sized real life where things aren't necessarily exactly how you go through them in daily life, but you can relate to something, and you can pull something out of it. "

" What would George Clooney do? That's one of my favourites. He is one of my favourite actors and one of my favourite human beings. I don't know if I have a serious life philosophy. "

" 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. "

" My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are. "

" I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.' "

" You have to have a life. And life has to go on when your voice shuts down on you and you have to take a break from what you're doing for a career. "

" 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. "

" Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the 'Kazee' is not. "

" 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. "

" When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. "

" When you're on set with Ed Asner or Melissa Peterman, you start to sort of exist in a different realm sometimes. You try not to let that get in your head, and you try not to let that overtake you. "

" '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. "