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" 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. "

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" I want to be respected by my peers and do really great work, even if it gets panned, even if I get raked across the coals. "

Gavin Creel

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Great Work

Peers

" I am a showoff, the third of three kids. "

" The funny thing about New York City is that if you hide from her, she's just gonna say, 'Whatever, kid!' and leave you in the dust. "

" I have so many passions. I'm just going to keep trying to go forward and see where they take me. "

Gavin Creel

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Trying

" I've always been a believer in the power of art - and music in particular - to inspire change. "

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

" It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice. "

" I want to be a poster boy for the uncool. "

" I'd be lying if I said that I didn't want to do a TV show or movie, but life comes first, and then there's business. If this business doesn't allow me to have my life, then I'll do something else and be a happier man. "

Gavin Creel

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My Life

" I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.' "

" I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. "

" I have to be able to have music at all times - to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance. "

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

" It doesn't inspire young men and women struggling with their own sexuality to be confident in who they are if I'm not confident in who I am. "

" I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it's great, there's nothing better, and when it's bad, there's nothing worse. "

" One thing I wanted to say in my Tony speech, which I didn't because I forgot what I was doing because I couldn't believe the view from where I was standing, was that I really, truly believe in an investment in young people in the arts. It is an investment in a more beautiful world. "

" I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors. "

" I don't like to hold too much formality in concerts. It's not that I don't like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I'm more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you're watching them. "

" 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. "

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

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

Gavin Creel

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" I'm pretty independent. "

Gavin Creel

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Pretty

" There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it. "

" I love Jason Robert Brown. "

" 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. "

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

" I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There's something about Michigan. Maybe it's that we're less jaded out there in the Midwest, I don't know, but it's a love of what we do and each other that brings us together. It's just a magic place. "

" Love her or leave her, there is no place quite like N.Y.C. "

" I love Kim Kardashian. There, I've said it. "