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.

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

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

Being in charge sometimes means making people mad. Some days you have to overrule even the best advice, because you think it is not right.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].

The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.

Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

I love all the things there are, and of all fires love is the only inexhaustible one; and that's why I go from life to life.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.