Nelly Furtado Quotes

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...

I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.

If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.

When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.

Touring is a favorite part of what I do. I love connecting with the fans in that immediate way.

I finally feel content with my work. My fruit has started to ripen. I'm able to dissect emotion properly and distill it into a song that reverberates in a truthful place.

When you're too concerned about branding, you're restricting yourself.

There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic.

I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.

I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.

I say it's a girls' world.

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don”t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.

As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.

I'm privileged that I'm an artist.

Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.

I definitely believe that we really need to stop putting things in masculine and feminine boxes and realize that men and women both contain masculine and feminine energy.

I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.

If you're spreading light, you don't care where the sunshine goes.

I'm aware of - and embrace - my masculine energy. Sometimes I have too much yang.

I can't understand marketing. I think it's because I never looked at what I do as a job. I've rebelled against that and I will continue to.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

In our world, it's a big deal when you have a favourite collaborator and share them.

I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.