As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

I remember seeing Aladdin when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do. Mum said I couldnt be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, OK, then, I want to be an actor.

That which makes you different is what makes you strong. Whether you're gay, straight, purple, orange, dinosaur; I don't care.

I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.

When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

Glee is more then just a show now. It's become a wonderful culture celebrating the underdog and glorifying individuality.