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

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.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.

A short skirt and lots of makeup won't impress me.

I got a fantastic person to work me out and get me into really good shape.

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.