When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.