I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.

When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else.

I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.

I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.

There's something special about 'Looking.'

I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites.

I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!

'Looking' is more than just a television show. It's contributing to the cultural conversation, and for me, those are the most exciting projects to be a part of.

I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's a dangerous expectation to come in watching the show expecting that. Expecting that out of any show.

I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun.

The hardest I've ever laughed was with Lea Michele.

I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.

I smile a lot in my real life.

When you get to really involve yourself with a piece and the other people, and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think.

I've never had trouble sleeping in my life.

I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times.

I did have AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school.

I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.

I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season.

I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.'

It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.

I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.'

I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale.

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act, and you're in the audience.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist.

I was obsessed with Nintendo.

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.

When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.

I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me.

My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.

As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. 'Spring Awakening' kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams - beyond my wildest dreams.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

One person's car is another person's scenery.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

The best ideas start as conversations.

Good is the enemy of great.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn't. I think it's theft, and it's lazy.

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.

We all use something - you can't drill holes with your fingers. Whether it's a knife, a needle, or a machine, we all need the help of a device.