Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the "Kazee" is not.

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

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

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

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

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.