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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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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" The older I've gotten, and the more that I've worked, I cherish that I'm an Ohio boy because, at the end of the day, I believe that I'm a talented person; I believe that I work really hard, but I think that the main reason I'm successful is because I'm kind, I'm easy to work with, and I'm a team player. "

" We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period. "

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

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

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

" I want to know that I'm proud of what I'm doing. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

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

" I'm pretty independent. "

" Watching President Obama, for the first time in my life, one of us was running for president. He seemed like one of us - and I got behind him, and I got excited about his message and what he continues to say he's going to do. The day he was elected president, Prop 8 happened. It was this bizarre dichotomy - world history - good and bad. "

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

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

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