These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

I got the job [in Moana], and the next day I was on a plane to New Zealand, where the rest of the team was already doing research, and meeting with different choirs, and sort of really soaking up the music, the musical world of, the musical heritage of this part of the world.

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

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