I will lay down my life if it sets us free.

I had the good fortune of being 9 years old when The Little Mermaid came out, that whole run of really beautiful Disney musicals, and so, the fact that I got to interview with Ron [Clements] and John [Musker], who directed The Little Mermaid, I was, like, I just walked in and said, "You're the reason I'm even here."

It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark Mancina and myself, we really chased that, while serving our story Moana].

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

I am the epitome of coolness.

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

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.