I still look at that water, and I look at Moana's hair, and I'm just like, "How is this even happening?" It's such an incredible mix of technical mastery and wizardry. It's really incredible. It's layers and layers and layers. It's not unlike building a musical. It's really pretty cool.

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

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

We sort of quickly realized every rhythm, Opetaia [Foa'i] takes the lead.

People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really conversational, it's much easier for them to bridge that gap.

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.

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.