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" 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. "

Gavin Creel

Broadway

Lead

First

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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.' "

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

" 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. "

Gavin Creel

Life

My Life

" 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. "

" 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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not much for formality. "

Gavin Creel

Much

Formality

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" It's really hard to go into a creative process and not think, 'I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.' "

Gavin Creel

Get

Creative

" The funny thing about New York City is that if you hide from her, she's just gonna say, 'Whatever, kid!' and leave you in the dust. "

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

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

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

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

" 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

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

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

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