[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.

We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.

I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.

The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents.

Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.

Don't ruin a good opportunity fixating on a bad one.

But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don’t do it from a mental kind of place because then you’re just acting.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.

It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.