I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.

I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.

Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

I am the epitome of coolness.

I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They don't have to come from some far off place.

The biggest secret weapon we had in regards to really being true to this part of the world, and making sure this part of the world could see themselves in this film [Moana] in a way that felt positive and accurate, was Opetaia, my co-writer, Opetaia Foa'i, who has a great band called Te Vaka and is an amazing musical and cultural ambassador.