I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it could mean and whether this could be the ancestor song. So, I started writing English lyrics to sort of the same melody.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

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