Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

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

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

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

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

At my high school, it was the first time they had TV monitors up, and before class would start, they would have CMT and the music videos playing.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

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

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and Grammys and whatever, and I will always remember waiting in line for government cheese and bread and having food stamps. I had a tough life, and I will never not know the way I was raised and the place where I was raised.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

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.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

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

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

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.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.

Steve Kazee
Steve Kazee

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