I got to holler just to be heard.

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is "We Know The Way." That's the first song we wrote for the movie [Moana]. We actually got it written that weekend in New Zealand, so we're all in New Zealand, we're all absorbing this culture, and Opetaia [Foa'i] brought it in.

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

No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.

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.

The theater should always be a safe space.