You live in a bubble, generally, when you're touring and recording - you're in confined - in alone space, wherever you are, in the dressing room or in the studio - so sometimes it's hard to grasp that bigger picture of things that are going on.

I don't have a circus around me, and that's a choice. I like to be on Planet Earth as much as possible.

In ballet class, I felt like Ralph Wiggum.

When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain.

I wound up graduating from the Los Angeles County School for the Arts as a theatre major and then was honored to be accepted into Carnegie Mellon's Musical Theatre program.

I wore out the Broadway 'Tommy' recording. I just loved it.

We got to see Sondheim shows, 'Phantom of the Opera,' 'Cats' and all sorts of stuff. When you're 10 or 11 years old, it's just magnificent. The story-telling, the music - it lifts you out of your seat.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and my first musical theatre experiences were at the Music Center in downtown L.A.

I wasn't the best student, and for some reason, I always got music. While other people were having trouble figuring out notes on a page, I could listen to it once and play it back.

There are so many incredible causes, no one better than the other. There are lots of organizations that need our help and lots of ways we need to help one another.