Life 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... Lin-Manuel Miranda 15
Music I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a... Lin-Manuel Miranda 19
Music The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you, and I find that it's all over the score of 'Hamilton.' Lin-Manuel Miranda 11
Music Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the... Lin-Manuel Miranda 13
be the best Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about. Lin-Manuel Miranda 17
be the best In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons. Lin-Manuel Miranda 11
Christmas One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I... Lin-Manuel Miranda 14