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.

Disney's really incredible on story.

It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.

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

I got to holler just to be heard.

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

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.