Quotes from Gavin Creel

I like creating stuff and projects, but at the same time, I do like sometimes just having a routine with somebody else telling me where to go, what time to be there.

I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors.

I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.'

I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.

I want to be respected by my peers and do really great work, even if it gets panned, even if I get raked across the coals.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

Some scenes are just more people's thing than others, and I know that my Gay New York is truly whatever I make of it. If I want her loud and lively, she's there. If I want sunsets and starlight, Battery Park, here I come.

I have to be able to have music at all times - to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance.

I don't like to hold too much formality in concerts. It's not that I don't like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I'm more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you're watching them.

I've always had a plan for my music career.

I am not a sex symbol of the Broadway community. I know guys who are, and I say, 'Rock it out.' But I'm more comfortable in a different land. I don't know what land it is, but not that one.

You put these politicians in office, but then you've got to tell them what you want them to do. And it's intimidating to most people. I was intimidated by it. I mean, calling my senator or writing my senator? I'm like, what do I say? What do I do? But we're showing people that the political process is actually less intimidating than we think.

I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.

I still don't go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I'm not not going because I'm afraid, but rather I'm not going now because I don't want to get off the couch.

The older I've gotten, and the more that I've worked, I cherish that I'm an Ohio boy because, at the end of the day, I believe that I'm a talented person; I believe that I work really hard, but I think that the main reason I'm successful is because I'm kind, I'm easy to work with, and I'm a team player.

I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.'

There's no way you can deliver 'the greatest musical of the century.'

It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice.

There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it.

After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.

When people smile in your direction when you do something, you tend to continue to do it.

I'm not much for formality.

The tech rehearsal for Brits is so different. They have little glasses of wine and walk around saying, 'Lovely, darling, lovely.'

I am a showoff, the third of three kids.