Nelly Quotes

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

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.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

If we dont heal our own hood, who will?

Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.

When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .

Your own destiny, create your own recipe.

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."

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

But silence is where victims dwell.

I like my body so much more now since having my baby.

I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.

Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that?

We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.

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.

So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.

I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

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.

Bewitched is half of everything.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

A body in movement is its philosophy.

Guys don't really care, they just want to get the clothes off.

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

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

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

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.

You always get that energy, you just want to be heard, to go out, do your thing and show people that we have just as much talent here as everywhere else.

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

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 try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

Smoke that herb and clear your mind.