It's definitely an adjustment to get used to not having an in person experience with fans and feeling the back and forth about what you're doing in the room, it feels so good to sing and knowing that more people than ever are listening from wherever their space is in the world, it's beautiful.

Josh Groban

I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.

Josh Groban

wall character thinking

My biggest blast-off hit was "You Raise Me Up." If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

Josh Groban

blast wedding funeral

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

Josh Groban

couple silly jobs

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.

Josh Groban

type thinking

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

Josh Groban

piano race home

When I started in the music business, travel became a huge part of my world, where it hadn't been at all. I visited parts of the world that I'd never been to and found that I was spending maybe 30 days at home a year.

Josh Groban

home world years

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

Josh Groban

artist hair song

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

Josh Groban

freak butterfly helping

There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose bump thing, where the melody or whatever it is just gets you and you don't know why. Sometimes, it's in a genre that you didn't think you liked and, all of a sudden, the song hits you and you just say, wow, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I love this song.

Josh Groban

heart song thinking

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.

Josh Groban

hours practice years

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

Josh Groban

talent song boys

I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.

Josh Groban

remember long kids

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

Josh Groban

few-friends lockers girl

I like my hair long because I have really big ears.

Josh Groban

ears hair long

I think that my relationship with my fans has been very special from day one. It's been very special in spite of the fact that I don't think I would ever be able to call myself a press darling. I don't think there's ever been a superficial hype machine around me.

Josh Groban

hype special thinking

Honestly, if I were gay, I would have had no problem saying it from day one. ... People have speculated, have wanted to speculate – whatever, fine. I'm not gay, but if I were, I don't review it as a bad thing.

Josh Groban

entertainment

If I could go back and tell that young kid, 'You're gonna be People Magazine's 'Sexiest,' he would've had a lot easier of a time.

Josh Groban

entertainment

Instead of telling us to leave.

Josh Groban

entertainment

You live in a bubble, generally, when you're touring and recording - you're in confined - in alone space, wherever you are, in the dressing room or in the studio - so sometimes it's hard to grasp that bigger picture of things that are going on.

Josh Groban

picture alone you space

All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.

Josh Groban

person grades leadership education