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I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.

I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!

I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

I never felt I left the stage.