When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the Kazee is not.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

When you start hiding things away, that’s when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.