My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.

I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers and musical theatre performers and tap dancers and orchestras and dog acts. You had to leave your home, be in the presence of other people, know how to behave, and enjoy the human being whose beating heart was in front of you.

I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows.

Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand in front of the other, keep your eye on the prize, and then get there. And then turn around and help the other people - because you're already there, so start helping.

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This is my voice.

I've always wanted to go to Austria.