With every word, I drop knowledge.

I think I learned more about writing scores for Broadway by making mix tapes in the '90s than I did in college. You're learning about rise and fall and energy and tempo shifts. You're showing off your taste and your references. You're trying to be witty by - through placement of music you didn't write.

My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.

I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.

I'm not trying to make something that is difficult to perform every night. It needs to proceed at the speed of that character's thought because that's the only way it's actable.

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

I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They don't have to come from some far off place.