I'm A Huge Freddie Mercury Fan. I

I Love Orchestrating Music And Conducting And Being On Broadway.

My Dad Was The District Attorney Of New Orleans For About 30 Years. And When He Opened His Campaign Headquarters Back In The Early '70s, When I Was 5 Years Old, My Mother Wanted Me To Play The National Anthem. And They Got An Upright Piano On The Back Of A Flatbed Truck And I Played It.

[frank Sinatra] Was An Incredible Artist, The Best At What He Did, But It Never Occurred To Me To Model My Career After What He Did. There Was No One I Modeled My Career After Because There Was No One Else Who Did What I Did.

There's Some Things I Can't Write About, Just Terrible Personal Tragedies.

As A Character, You're Working Within The Realm Of What's On The [script] Page.