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

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

" To be an actor, it's really tough to find your own voice because you're always tied to other characters and going to auditions and trying to get a job, hoping they'll pick you. And I think it's just so important for an actor to have something else that's creative, something that's creative and you're in charge of. "

" My mom and dad have always, always, and continue to be the most incredible citizens of the world and most generous in quiet ways, that I strive to do even a fraction of what they do. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 love Jason Robert Brown. "

" I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.' "

" 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. "

" 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 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.' "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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