Nelly Furtado Quotes & Sayings

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me. — Nelly Furtado

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away ... — Nelly Furtado

When she walks she walks with passion when she talks, she talks like she can handle it when she asks for something, boy she means it she know you would do [anything] to keep her by your side she'll make you work hard make you spend hard make you want all, all of her she'll make you fall real fast [in love]. — 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'm privileged that I'm an artist. — 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

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

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

I'm into cotton underwear. I dont need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy. — Nelly Furtado

I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different. — Nelly Furtado

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada. — Nelly Furtado

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make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love. — Nelly Furtado

I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night. — Nelly Furtado

Touring is a favorite part of what I do. I love connecting with the fans in that immediate way — Nelly Furtado

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. — Nelly Furtado

I like my body so much more now since having my baby. — Nelly Furtado

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best. — 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

Guys don't really care, they just want to get the clothes off. — Nelly Furtado

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds. — Nelly Furtado

I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz. — Nelly Furtado

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot. — Nelly Furtado

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

It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful. — Nelly Furtado

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring — Nelly Furtado