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.

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

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

With every word, I drop knowledge.

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.

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.

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