If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

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.

People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really conversational, it's much easier for them to bridge that gap.

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

It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark Mancina and myself, we really chased that, while serving our story Moana].

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