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.

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.

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

When “We’ve always done it that way” is replaced with “Let’s try something new, ” associations will leap to greatness.

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

Everything around me makes me miss you.

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.

Music is about the performance.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.