Quotes from Randy Rainbow

I'm a tech-savvy person by nature, but I have had to train myself to do what I've got to do. I learned Final Cut and Adobe After Effects.

I would love to be on a sitcom or on Broadway.

I'm not really that political and I love the idea of a sitcom. But a lot of people want me to become the next Jon Stewart.

That's the downside of total creative control: You're isolated and after a while you can lose a little perspective. But I've taught myself not to listen to my own self-doubt.

I am very proud to be a Jew.

I guess to long story short it, I was really just working day jobs when I moved to New York and trying to pay the bills, working in restaurants and as a receptionist, and at one of those reception jobs, I just got so bored, I started a blog, honing my writing skills a little bit.

My family is very New Yorker.

My parents always had a Christmas tree in the house and I was put in ballet at a very young age. So every year I would be in 'The Nutcracker.'

I was never really a traveler.

I celebrate everything. We always had a menorah and a Christmas tree - not for any reason other than we always liked celebrating things.

I was doing YouTube before YouTube was a thing. I was making videos on my camcorder for my friends. I would do parodies of Britney Spears videos and stuff like that.

The fact that I am able to put myself out there in this age of social media and YouTube is really a gift to someone who never felt like I fit into any particular mold. One of the reasons people are responding to it is because it is coming from a pure place.

As far as inspiration, the most I got from YouTube was that I'm kind of self-taught by watching YouTube tutorials on how to use Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro. I just taught myself enough to produce the content that I had in my head.

Anyone who does social media, YouTube, Internet content will tell you it can be extremely isolating.

I've always wanted to be in concert and do a solo show.

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.

I'm a big show queen to begin with. I think in show tunes.

I'm a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I'm mocking. But at the end of the day, I'm the little guy taking on the big guy. That to me is not bullying. That's satire.

It wasn't until I moved to New York that I started actually leaving the house and doing things. You know, I was a typical theater nerd.

Music and comedy, musical comedy, specifically, really helped me through my childhood. I felt out of place, I felt lots of adversity, and I felt scared all the time.

Sondheim's work especially, and musical theater like that, just spoke to me so much and taught me so many lessons.

I did a lot of children's theater in Miami Shores. My base musical theater training happened there.

Music in general, but really musical theater has always been a real coping mechanism for me.

My mother was majorly into musical theatre - that's how this happened. That's how I became the gayest person in the world.