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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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

" I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'm pretty independent. "

" The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that? "

" 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. "

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

" At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute 'The Book of Mormon' for 'The Bible: The Musical' or 'The Quran: The Musical.' "