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" Learning how to get a point across is pretty useful in any situation. "

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" I was so stressed, man. When I was 17, I was so worried about what the hell was going to happen. "

" I'm from the Bay Area, so I know a lot about granola. "

" My parents are not together, but they were both always around. "

" Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing. "

" What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you. It frames your thoughts in such a way that grabs people's attentions and forces them to hear the things that you're actually saying. "

" We're very used to seeing a huge diversity of white people. You never just expect two white people on TV to feel the same way. "

" Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels. "

" I've always been a fan of 'Black-ish.' "

" That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming at it with your full self. "

" Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway. "

" As a kid, I was very shy. "

" I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion. "

" To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain. "

" Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don't speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage... Philip Glass. "

" I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because that world is really well done and doesn't need me to inform it anymore. "

" The fact that rap has a strict meter and stays to a click means that you have to make your thoughts concise. "

" If you do enough rap shows, you get a pretty good sense of an audience. You start to develop this sense of what a feeling of a room or a group is. "

" Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth. "

" The fact that I got to do the 'Hamilton' BET Cypher is a totally crazy thing because I've watched the BET Cyphers since it started. I've seen every one. I study them. Because I'm a rapper. It's what you do. "

" I didn't aspire to be on Broadway. "

" Being with a bunch of people who never take a day off means that you're not taking a day off. "

" I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did. "

" I can jump really high, yeah. I'm proud of that. I'll take it. "

" That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius. "

" Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop. "

" Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up. "

" I make the energy to go out. You can't let the Broadway schedule run you. "

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" I'm fascinated with the regionality of rap music. "