A biography for Leslie Odomhasn’t been written yet.
“I know what feeling broke feels like real well. I know that real well.”
“What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.”
“You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.”
“I feel like every night, when you see a really good production of 'Romeo and Juliet' or something, you should hope that it ends differently. That's why we watch our favorite movies again and again.”
“You gotta love this thing. Whatever you choose to pursue - medicine, law, writing, you have to love it. You study it, you eat it, you drink it, you try it, you do it, you love it in every way.”
“I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a loft in TriBeCa, and the elevator opened right into her apartment. I was like, 'I've never seen anything like that.' I didn't know it was possible.”
“I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.”
“When we go and cheer Cynthia Erivo on in 'The Color Purple,' it's because we've elected her to be our voice. She sings 'I'm Here' for all of us.”
“None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.”
“I'm glad things worked out the way they worked out.”
“I've been fortunate in my life. It hasn't been easy, but there has been a focus on the positive, and it has reverberated. Eventually, the outlook mirrors itself back to you in the friends you have, in the partner that you choose.”
“Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.”
“There was a lot of the 'Hamilton' experience that was like a locomotive. It was a hurricane, so the apartment often looked like a hurricane. There were clothes and shoes all over. We were getting more things in than we had room for. We had to figure out how to make space for all the blessings and goodness coming toward us.”
“I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.”
“For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.”
“I've done a lot of translation in TV, and I can do it. I'm trained to do it. I know how to inject a certain amount of my naturalness into that and where I come from into those things, but it helps if somebody's writing with my experience in mind.”
“It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.”
“I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.”
“I'm so excited about my new partnership with the talented and motivated team at S-Curve Records!”
“The bad guys have way more fun, in my opinion. 'Bad guys' in quotes.”