It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

The more attention you give to the paparazzi, the more it just, like, validates everything . . .

Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

I can't remember. . . . My character was sort of unconscious for it.

Honesty is most important, and it's difficult when you're young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!