Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.

If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy you want.

My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.

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 got the job [in Moana], and the next day I was on a plane to New Zealand, where the rest of the team was already doing research, and meeting with different choirs, and sort of really soaking up the music, the musical world of, the musical heritage of this part of the world.