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

I am not throwing away my shot.

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

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

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

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.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.