Gavin Creel

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

“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.”

“There's no way you can deliver 'the greatest musical of the century.'”

“I love Jason Robert Brown.”

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

“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.'”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I'm pretty independent.”

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

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

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

“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.”