Latest Nelly Furtado Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.

  Nelly Furtado

  Fun, Live Life, Play

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Art, Together, Live Well

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Lonely, Anxiety, Generations

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Song, Writing, Differences

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Thinking, Islands, Community

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Nelly Furtado

  Believe, Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Mainstream Society, Hopeful, Facts

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Laughter, Believe, Brain

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Nelly Furtado

  Heart, Winning, Follow Your Heart

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Makeup, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Art, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Strong, Fighting, Elements

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Nelly Furtado

  Mistake, Decision, Artistic

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Fall, Thinking, Intention

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I can't understand marketing. I think it's because I never looked at what I do as a job. I've rebelled against that and I will continue to.

  Nelly Furtado

  Jobs, Thinking, Marketing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Believe, Men, Masculine And Feminine

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I'm aware of - and embrace - my masculine energy. Sometimes I have too much yang.

  Nelly Furtado

  Energy, Yang, Too Much

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Believe, Artist, Ethnicity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Thinking, Hands, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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?

  Nelly Furtado

  Philosophy, Air, Cds

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Who I Am, Class, Roots

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Nelly Furtado

  Branding, Concerned

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Thinking, Suits You, Want

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• If you're spreading light, you don't care where the sunshine goes.

  Nelly Furtado

  Sunshine, Light, Care

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Hard Work, Boys, Survivor

  Source: www.macleans.ca