When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.
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.
If you're spreading light, you don't care where the sunshine goes.
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.
I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.
I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.
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.
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...
As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.
Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring
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.
When you're too concerned about branding, you're restricting yourself.
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 say it's a girls' world.
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."
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!
Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don”t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.
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.
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.
Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
