“The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most importa…” — Lin-Manuel Miranda

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.

My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

In 'Hamilton,' we're telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience.