My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really conversational, it's much easier for them to bridge that gap.

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.

I 've got this weird day that changed my life. I woke up one Wednesday, and my wife's a lawyer, she was off to get on a plane, to go to a business meeting somewhere else, and she said, "I think you might be a father. I have to go to the airport." It was like, six in the morning, and I was like, "That's great - what?!" I called her at noon once her flight landed, to confirm that I hadn't dreamt the thing she told me.

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

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

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.