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Nelly Furtado Quotes

Nelly Furtado Quotes.

I’m like a bird, I’ll only fly away…
Nelly Furtado
When you’re too concerned about branding, you’re restricting yourself.
Nelly Furtado
Guys don’t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.
Nelly Furtado
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
Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.
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.
Nelly Furtado
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.
Nelly Furtado
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
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
I don’t really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it’s enabled me to open my mind.
Nelly Furtado
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
Nelly Furtado
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
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
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
I’m privileged that I’m an artist.
Nelly Furtado
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.
Nelly Furtado
If you wait this long to put an album out, you’d better be sure you tried your best.
Nelly Furtado
Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.
Nelly Furtado
When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.
Nelly Furtado
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.”
Nelly Furtado
Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.
Nelly Furtado
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
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
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.
Nelly Furtado
I like my body so much more now since having my baby.
Nelly Furtado