I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

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

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

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.

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

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

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

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.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

Start with yourself, strive for continuous improvement, perfection doesn't happen right away

Literature endures like the universal spirit, And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men.

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.

To be a success, dare to go beyond your fear and doubts.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.

I don't really wear lip gloss often, but I do like to wear a dab of lipstick. I put a dab on my lip and mix it with some of my chapstick, and people think it's my natural color!

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.