Christopher Jackson

Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.

One of the beautiful parts about Hamilton is it takes these figures that we've always revered as figures of antiquity and there's real blood flowing through their veins. There's real conflict. There's real life.

Hamilton' is as hard a job as anything I've ever done. It's equally rewarding, but it's very taxing. It's just so hard physically and emotionally to do it, and it just empties you out.

I approach most every job that I do with some sort of team ideal involved.

My most important jobs are to be a father and a husband, and so some things have to wait.

Because for every Lin Miranda performance, there's some young person out there saying, 'Oh, I can write something like this.' Or, 'I didn't think that this was possible.' It opens a world of possibilities.

The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.

If an artist doesn't have anything to say, he'll be quiet. Or he'll yell into the darkness until he finds something and hears something back.

Every day is different. I've only ever been happy spinning a thousand plates at once.

I consider it a great honor to be able to step on stage every night and do a show that people have paid money to see.

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis as hip-hop.

Tupac was the first artist that I really related to.