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

You know, you're doing the same show every day, and your inspiration, you have to look no further than the fact that you know people travel across the country to see you. In a lot of cases, this is that audience's only chance to see the thing, and so, that's what gets you up in the morning, and that's what gets you giving your best performance on stage, is the awareness that this audience is ready for it, and here to have an experience, and so in turn are you.

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

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].

I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.

I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.

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.