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

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

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

" 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. "

" I like creating stuff and projects, but at the same time, I do like sometimes just having a routine with somebody else telling me where to go, what time to be there. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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 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. "

" I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen. "

" 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 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'm a huge 'South Park' fan, loved 'Avenue Q,' and can not wait to work with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bobby Lopez, and Casey Nicholaw. "

" You put these politicians in office, but then you've got to tell them what you want them to do. And it's intimidating to most people. I was intimidated by it. I mean, calling my senator or writing my senator? I'm like, what do I say? What do I do? But we're showing people that the political process is actually less intimidating than we think. "

" 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 think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them. "

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

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

" I don't agree with those in our community who think that, as gay people, we are special and should therefore keep ourselves isolated from certain straight-associated thinking or conventions. "

" I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us. "

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

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

" I still don't go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I'm not not going because I'm afraid, but rather I'm not going now because I don't want to get off the couch. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I'm pretty independent. "

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