Quotes from Nelly Furtado

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

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.

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

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

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

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.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

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."

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.

I'm privileged that I'm an artist.

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.

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.

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

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

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.

Touring is a favorite part of what I do. I love connecting with the fans in that immediate way.

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don"t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.

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.

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 definitely believe that we really need to stop putting things in masculine and feminine boxes and realize that men and women both contain masculine and feminine energy.

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.

Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.

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.

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.