I got to holler just to be heard.

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

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

With every word, I drop knowledge.

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

I had the good fortune of being 9 years old when The Little Mermaid came out, that whole run of really beautiful Disney musicals, and so, the fact that I got to interview with Ron [Clements] and John [Musker], who directed The Little Mermaid, I was, like, I just walked in and said, "You're the reason I'm even here."

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.