LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA:

Absolutely.

What I'm always on the hunt for when I'm writing a song are details, and really attacking every moment in the most original way and theatrically compelling way possible. So, our mantra is, the political always has to be personal.

So if you're going to write a song about the compromise that led to Hamilton trading his vote for the debt plan for the capital of the U.S. being down here in the newly formed D.C., well, that's easy to say in a sentence, but let's tell it from the perspective of Aaron Burr, who wasn't in the room, and desperately wants to be in that room.

And, suddenly, we can get away with anything, because we have got dramatic tension.

(SINGING)