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

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.

My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.

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.

You know, you're doing the same show every day, and your inspiration, you have to look no further than the fact that you know people travel across the country to see you. In a lot of cases, this is that audience's only chance to see the thing, and so, that's what gets you up in the morning, and that's what gets you giving your best performance on stage, is the awareness that this audience is ready for it, and here to have an experience, and so in turn are you.

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

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