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.

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.

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

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

I went to a school where everyone was smarter than me. And I'm not blowin' smoke, I, my, I was surrounded by genius, genius kids. What's interesting about growing up in a culture like that is you go, "All right, I gotta figure out what my thing is. Because I'm not smarter than these kids. I'm not funnier than half of them, so I better figure out what it is I wanna do and work really hard at that because intellectually I'm treading water to, to be here."

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