I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

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

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

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.