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

The reason I make that distinction cassette before CD is you have to listen to it in the order in which I've curated it for you. You know, side A to side B is our act break.

I'm just like my country. I'm young, scrappy and hungry.

I think you balance the things you've been dying to do all your life. And the opportunities that come along, that you didn't maybe think of, that are so amazing, that you'd kick yourself if you didn't try to be a part of them.

I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords.

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.

If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy you want.