Jason Robert Brown

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always…

— Jason Robert Brown

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in…

— Jason Robert Brown

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb…

— Jason Robert Brown

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the…

— Jason Robert Brown

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…

— Jason Robert Brown

I try to get underneath the skin of all kinds of music, and I never know what's going to inspire me and…

— Jason Robert Brown

Personally, I've never been popular, so I'm not surprised that professionally I'm a bit out of step, too.

— Jason Robert Brown

I'm not doubtful that I am doing what I should be doing - writing for theater - and that I'm doing it…

— Jason Robert Brown

I love my stuff - you're not supposed to say that. But because I'm performer as well as a writer, I'm constantly…

— Jason Robert Brown

The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.

— Jason Robert Brown

I've never been particularly good at explaining or even understanding what this sort of rage is that is so accessible to me.…

— Jason Robert Brown

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way.…

— Jason Robert Brown

As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of…

— Jason Robert Brown

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things,…

— Jason Robert Brown

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give…

— Jason Robert Brown

I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully…

— Jason Robert Brown

There are actors I have very strong chemical responses to, and I strive always to figure out ways to work with them…

— Jason Robert Brown

I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to,…

— Jason Robert Brown

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would…

— Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how…

— Jason Robert Brown

My work is very popular with performers, and there are theatre people who get what I'm doing and what tradition I'm working…

— Jason Robert Brown

I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them.…

— Jason Robert Brown

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for…

— Jason Robert Brown

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write,…

— Jason Robert Brown

I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me…

— Jason Robert Brown