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.

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

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

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

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.

In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.