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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.