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

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.

Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

Did you forget me? Or are you too scared to tell me that you met me in fear that I won't remember?

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.