Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

I got the job [in Moana project] about six months before we started rehearsals. No, seven and a half months before we started at the Public, and so, it's been my ocean of calm throughout the Hamilton phenomenon.

I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.

It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark Mancina and myself, we really chased that, while serving our story Moana].

Tuesdays and Thursdays, I didn't do any press, I didn't do any meetings, I just wrote all day, 'cause I'd meet, via Skype, with the creative team, at five p.m., and then I would have my seven o'clock curtain.