People may have said, "The dude's gay; how are we going to market this?" But it's not an issue for me, because being out is very freeing.

I'd love to be able to be invisible, because I like to eavesdrop.

You sing songs hundreds of times over and over, but certain ones just morph and naturally, as you age and get life experience, take on a different form as well. When I was looking at songs for the album, I thought, "Which are the ones that connect with me the most? What do I think would work in album form?" Almost all of them I've done in shows.

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.

I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.