Tuesdays and Thursdays, I didn't do any press, I didn't do any meetings, I just wrote all day, 'cause I'd meet, via Skype, with the creative team, at five p.m., and then I would have my seven o'clock curtain.

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.

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 came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.

I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.