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• ‟ For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

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• ‟ I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

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• ‟ For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.

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• ‟ I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I am today.

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• ‟ I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.

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• ‟ There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.

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• ‟ Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh really changed everything for me.

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• ‟ When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand's Broadway album - and they laughed me out of the room. Broadway wasn't cool. But artists like Michael Buble and Josh Groban have brought the classic genre back to the forefront, so I'm trying to find my way inside that market.

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• ‟ I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.

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• ‟ People don't see me in traditional roles; I'm not getting cast in the revival of 'Company' as Bobby.

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• ‟ For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it. I don't need to sing songs just because I like them anymore. I've done that.

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