I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether it's a good act of translation or a bad act of translation, it's a leap, and very few stage shows manage the leap successfully.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

I think you balance the things you've been dying to do all your life. And the opportunities that come along, that you didn't maybe think of, that are so amazing, that you'd kick yourself if you didn't try to be a part of them.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

I have been working on this movie [Moana] since before Hamilton happened.