With every word, I drop knowledge.

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the t…

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

The people you're turning to for advice are all people making Disney movies, so we had these amazing meetings where you'd see John Lasseter, and then…

- Lin-Manuel Miranda