Latest Cheyenne Jackson Quotes from Interviews

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• You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Focus

  Interview With Karman Kregloe, www.newnownext.com. July 8, 2007.

• I'd love to be able to be invisible, because I like to eavesdrop.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Able, Invisible

• People don't expect me to have a weird sense of humor, but I do. I'm very eccentric.

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  People, Eccentric, Sense Of Humor

  Interview With Karman Kregloe, www.newnownext.com. July 8, 2007.

• I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

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  Insomnia, Long, Mind

  Interview With Karman Kregloe, www.newnownext.com. July 8, 2007.

• People know if you've got the goods, if you're easy to work with, and if you can get the job done.

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  Jobs, People, Done

  Interview With Karman Kregloe, www.newnownext.com. July 8, 2007.

• I understand why the gay community wants to embrace actors who are out. People want to be represented.

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  Gay, People, Community

  Interview With Karman Kregloe, www.newnownext.com. July 8, 2007.

• People may have said, "The dude's gay; how are we going to market this?" But it's not an issue for me, because being out is very freeing.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Gay, Issues, People

  Interview With Karman Kregloe, www.newnownext.com. July 8, 2007.

• I have huge legs, and I never show them - not because of false modesty, I'm just not comfortable.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Legs, Modesty, Shows

  Interview With Karman Kregloe, www.newnownext.com. July 8, 2007.

• Michael, from 'Six Dance Lessons...' He was somebody who had a lot of self-loathing; being a gay man who lost his family and felt ostracized. It was an interesting character to play. He was so bitter and jaded about life. Even though I'm not like that personally, everybody has a side of themselves that tends to look at the negative side of things. He was an interesting character to play.

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  Character, Gay, Men

  "Renaissance man". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• I really like the melody "Red Wine Is Good For My Heart" and people respond to it. I decided to put it on the album.

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  Heart, Wine, People

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• My very first tattoo was for my dog, Zora, who died in my arms in New York. Right where her heart stopped beating I got a "Z".

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Tattoo, Dog, New York

  "Renaissance man". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts and readings. We did 'Damn Yankees' together and then we did 'Xanadu.' Jane did all the workshops of 'Xanadu' before it moved to Broadway. She's hysterical and our voices blended. We had a similar sensibility.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Reading, Years, Voice

  "Renaissance man". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often did. I was working on a pilot. My grandma was very sick at the time. She died of complications from alcoholism. She always used to say [in his grandma's voice], "Red wine is good for my heart. That's what my doctor said." And we'd say, "Yeah, but not for breakfast." Unfortunately, it was the thing that killed her. I felt inspired to write a song about her and what that meant for her life and for all of us. I was writing it in Michael's house.

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  Song, Grandma, Heart

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• It was so much fun to have my very first TV (performance) be the holy grail of comedy, in my opinion. I was the guy from CHiPs and then I was Grizzly Adams. It was hysterical. We got to make out. It was really crazy, fun television.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Fun, Crazy, Guy

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• I've always loved Elton John and that is one of my favorite songs by him and Bernie (Taupin). The American songbook is ever-expanding and I feel like it works well with what I was trying to say.

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  Song, Trying, My Favorite

  "Renaissance man". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• Looking at the original lyrics [of "A Song For You" ] as I was preparing it, I thought, "Wow! I feel like it was written for me." That's what a great song does. You don't have to do a lot of homework. You can just say the words and it springs to life.

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  Song, Spring, Wow

  "Renaissance man: an interview with Cheyenne Jackson". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• I came upon Diana Krall's jazz arrangement of "A Case of You" several years back. I've always wanted to pay homage to both her version and Joni's, and by proxy, my mom. She's the one that introduced me to that music.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Mom, Years, Pay

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Mom, Eras, My Mom

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You." My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan.

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  Mom, Listening, Fans

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Fun, Has Beens

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album goes, it happened very naturally.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Song, Years, Matter

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• You sing songs hundreds of times over and over, but certain ones just morph and naturally, as you age and get life experience, take on a different form as well. When I was looking at songs for the album, I thought, "Which are the ones that connect with me the most? What do I think would work in album form?" Almost all of them I've done in shows.

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  Song, Thinking, Age

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Kings, Holiday, Kids

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

• Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Straight Up, Ambiguous, Protagonists

  "'American Horror Story' Star Cheyenne Jackson Reveals The Bloody Secrets Of 'Hotel'". Interview with Shaunna Murphy, www.mtv.com. October 7, 2015.