I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

I wasn't dating anyone. I was hyper-focused on acting. So I didn't bring a guy to the prom. I was the lone gay person as far as I knew.

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

Storytelling with music is a really powerful device.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.