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

I'm privileged that I'm an artist.

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

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

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.

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

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.