I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

I got to holler just to be heard.

I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.

I have been working on this movie [Moana] since before Hamilton happened.

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

I think, there are a couple of songs. I'm really proud of How far I'll Go. I literally locked myself up in my childhood bedroom at my parents' house to write those lyrics. I wanted to get to my angstiest possible place. So I went method on that.

I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.