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I love Jason Robert Brown.
I'm not much for formality.
I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.
I'm tired of all the angry stuff out there.
I've always had a plan for my music career.
I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.'
I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre.
It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice.
I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen.
I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.'
I have been a nomad for most of my thirties, even creatively.
There's no way you can deliver 'the greatest musical of the century.'
There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it.
Being from the theatre, I am always interpreting someone else's thoughts and feelings.
When people smile in your direction when you do something, you tend to continue to do it.
I've always been a believer in the power of art - and music in particular - to inspire change.
I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.
I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.
I have to be able to have music at all times - to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance.
I have so many passions. I'm just going to keep trying to go forward and see where they take me.
After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.
It's really hard to go into a creative process and not think, 'I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.'
I feel like we're constantly getting better musically, and more of what's in my heart and head is coming through.
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 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.
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.
The tech rehearsal for Brits is so different. They have little glasses of wine and walk around saying, 'Lovely, darling, lovely.'
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.
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'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.
I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'
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.'
It doesn't inspire young men and women struggling with their own sexuality to be confident in who they are if I'm not confident in who I am.
The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle.
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 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.
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.'
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 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 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.
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 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 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'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.
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’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. Elder Price is an amazing role and I am so excited to take The Book of Mormon across the country.
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.
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 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.