The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

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.

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

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

I got the job [in Moana], and the next day I was on a plane to New Zealand, where the rest of the team was already doing research, and meeting with different choirs, and sort of really soaking up the music, the musical world of, the musical heritage of this part of the world.

My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.