My hero is Michael Jackson. Was and continues to be. He's amazing. When I was growing up, it was the time of 'Thriller' and 'Bad.' I'd come home from school and put on the vinyls. I'd put on a white V-neck T-shirt and roll back the carpet and dance for hours. I'd moonwalk and do the spins.

If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.

Coming out in a bedazzled tank top and silver jeans and singing 'Superstar' with a 36-piece band and 28 dancers around me is one of the dopest things I've ever had the opportunity to do.

I really only knew the name Berry Gordy growing up, but I didn't know what he looked like or anything about him.

If I cared what people think about my career, I would have not done - just look at my work. Don't look at me; look at what I've done.

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

Because entrepreneurship is so hard and does take so long to build something great, you do have to build an environment that you yourself as an entrepreneur want to work in for the next 20 years.

I just feel really fortunate to build a career as a writer.