I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.

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.

I can't stop.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

As you know now, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party, but they'll probably go with a different body.

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

God is only where you let Him in.

I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.

I never knew what top golf was like until I turned professional. Then it was too late.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.