I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot. Nelly Furtado More Quotes by Nelly Furtado More Quotes From Nelly Furtado When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good. Nelly Furtado follow-your-heartwinningheart 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 live-welltogetherart 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 anxietygenerationslonely I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time. Nelly Furtado live-lifeplayfun 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 intentionfallthinking Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring Nelly Furtado awe-inspiringmysticalmusic-is 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 connectionslegacynature Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake. Nelly Furtado artisticdecisionmistake 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! Nelly Furtado summertimeparentmen 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 handsideasthinking 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 ethnicityartistbelieve 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 marketingjobsthinking I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind. Nelly Furtado evilbelievethinking When you're too concerned about branding, you're restricting yourself. Nelly Furtado brandingconcerned 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 voidlike-youvoice I'm aware of - and embrace - my masculine energy. Sometimes I have too much yang. Nelly Furtado yangtoo-muchenergy 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-societyhopefulfacts 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 laughterbrainbelieve 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 elementsfightingstrong 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 masculine-and-femininemenbelieve
