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.”

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

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

“Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.”

“I say it's a girls' world.”

“I'm privileged that I'm an artist.”

“I like my body so much more now since having my baby.”

“Guys don't really care, they just want to get the clothes off.”

“Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.”

“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.”