It is scary to write – period – for me, but once you get past the idea that it’s scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself – to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page. Jason Robert Brown Read Quote
When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid – that’s probably an unfair way to say it – from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing. Jason Robert Brown Read Quote
You’re supposed to be a control freak when you’re an artist. That’s the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you’re not going to protect it? Jason Robert Brown Read Quote
In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don’t have a Seder or I don’t light the menorah, I feel a loss. Jason Robert Brown Read Quote
I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn’t think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I’m a musician. Jason Robert Brown Read Quote
I don’t want costumes and makeup between me and the audience – I want more direct communication. There’s something for me about being honest on stage, and I’m at my most honest when I’m behind a piano. So I prefer my concert performances. Jason Robert Brown Read Quote
What’s great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That’s what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else’s best out of them. Jason Robert Brown Read Quote
I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don’t know quite how to get in because it’s how I’ve always felt. Jason Robert Brown Read Quote
I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time… and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it’s done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living. Jason Robert Brown Read Quote
I grew up in the ’70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder. Jason Robert Brown Read Quote
