People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much.

Live, love, wonder, and be nice!

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos.

I can change, I can grow.

I aim for weekly routines with clear goals but make sure I do some stuff that I think I'll value in the long run.

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.

Love is just chemicals.

Swords and knives make me feel vulnerable.

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.

I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

As I was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquests, trying to make themselves appear like a cassanova. I'm surprised you haven't heard that, I really am.

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.

... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.

No man need stay the way he is.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.