Nelly Furtado
I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.Collection: Brainy
Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.
Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.
I'm privileged that I'm an artist.
It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.
I say it's a girls' world.
I like my body so much more now since having my baby.
Guys don't really care, they just want to get the clothes off.
If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.
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.
Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.
I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.
When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Lonely
If you're spreading light, you don't care where the sunshine goes.Collection: Sunshine
I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.Collection: Believe
I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.Collection: Fun
As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Fall
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...Collection: Bird
Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiringCollection: Mystical
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.Collection: Differences
When you're too concerned about branding, you're restricting yourself.Collection: Branding
Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.Collection: Nature
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."Collection: Voice
It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album!Collection: Men
Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don”t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.Collection: Girl
I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.Collection: Motherhood
There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic.Collection: Laughter
Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.Collection: Mistake
I'm not into branding - I'm trying to be organic to who I am on every level. I do really connect to being a part of the working class. Those are my roots. My family [consists of] farmers from Portugal, builders, housekeepers and stonemasons.Collection: Who I Am
I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and more a part of mainstream society. That's exciting. There is no fringe anymore. We should all be included.Collection: Mainstream Society
I believe the future will reflect different body types, ethnicities, cultures and sexual orientations. I've been working with a lot of young artists who really project an androgynous and inclusive approach to the world. I'm very inspired by that.Collection: Believe
I often think about the idea that augmentation has become the new normal. When you start to augment and filter yourself because you think you should, you're kind of putting your worth in other people's hands, rather than having that worth come from within.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Song
All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of their femininity and have to blend it in with masculinity... it's a kind of protection. Somebody like Madonna is strong but soft. You have to be that way in this business.Collection: Strong
When she walks she walks with passion when she talks, she talks like she can handle it when she asks for something, boy she means it she know you would do [anything] to keep her by your side she'll make you work hard make you spend hard make you want all, all of her she'll make you fall real fast [in love].Collection: Hate
Touring is a favorite part of what I do. I love connecting with the fans in that immediate way.Collection: Fans
I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.Collection: Song
Since our online libraries are so extensive, we think we can make all the right decisions about our personal health and well-being by pushing buttons. It's not intuitive anymore. That's the internet. Before the net, we would have gone to the community or our families to see what we should do. We often feel more isolated on our own little islands because of it.Collection: Thinking
I'd love to try and teach Donald Trump how to write a song. I'd love to put him in a room with another person - someone who's protesting him at the Women's March. I'd put the three of us in a room and all write a song together. If that can happen, it proves we can get over our differences.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Art
I'm always concerned about marketing or commercial philosophies. I can't feel good about having my name on a bottle of perfume that comes from a factory making perfume with all the same ingredients as every other perfume. I can't feel good about a factory overseas polluting the air for something with my name on it. I'm okay with music - because it's digital or a CD. My music is my emotion in a bottle. But how is a perfume supposed to reflect me? How is a sweatshirt supposed to represent me?Collection: Philosophy
I do feel like I'm a survivor because the music industry is still a boys' club. I really respect all the women in the business. I know trusting yourself is hard work but it helps you avoid all the traps and labels that come with being in this business.Collection: Hard Work
We can't automatically think about young women in makeup negatively. Sometimes a woman engages in these new forces and energies of beauty coming into her world. They can become tools. She's trying to express her femininity outwardly. I'm still learning too.Collection: Makeup
In our world, it's a big deal when you have a favourite collaborator and share them.Collection: Our World
I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.Collection: Thinking