Steve Kazee

“I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'”

“For me, Facebook and Twitter was always just a way for me to reach out to the fans of the show, to communicate with my friends who where in the business, and I never felt like I wanted to use it to further my career in some way. I don't know that it has the power or the ability to do that. I just never thought about it in those terms.”

“It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'”

“I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics.”

“I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music.”

“When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.”

“It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'”

“We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.”

“Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.”

“I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'”

“I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.”

“When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”

“I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.”

“If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.”

“I was a disruptive student. I hated my teachers, especially my Spanish teacher. When I went to see the musical 'Matilda,' the horrible Miss Trunchbull brought back all sorts of horrible memories. I'd go into Spanish class, put on headphones, and sing at the top of my lungs until they threw me out.”

“I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and Grammys and whatever, and I will always remember waiting in line for government cheese and bread and having food stamps. I had a tough life, and I will never not know the way I was raised and the place where I was raised.”

“There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s blaring out the songs of Neil Diamond, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin.”

“My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.”

“Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world.”

“There's never been a question of not being a part of this business or not being a part of this industry - I love it - it's in my blood; it's always been in my blood. It's just a part of who I am.”