The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'

You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.

I only know how to write musicals.

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.

If Hamilton were on Twitter, he would have been a worse oversharer than me.

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.