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" 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. "

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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.' "

Gavin Creel

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Music

People

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

" 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 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 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. "

Gavin Creel

Routine

Creating

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

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

" 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 can't live without my music player. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Gavin Creel

You

Sometimes

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I am not a sex symbol of the Broadway community. I know guys who are, and I say, 'Rock it out.' But I'm more comfortable in a different land. I don't know what land it is, but not that one. "

" I love Jason Robert Brown. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

Gavin Creel

Pay

Want

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

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

" 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'm pretty independent. "

Gavin Creel

Independent

Pretty

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

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