“I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.”

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.

Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I’ve got followers there who I’ve been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele.

I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.

My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.

What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it’s not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It’s a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It’s a very mental game.

When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about it.

It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.

I remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.

I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.

I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.

I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.

Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We’re very alike; it’s not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it’s just that he was born 10 years later… he’s a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum

I carry on knowing that when I deteriorate, my body will be a museum of all I can do and all that hindered me.

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum – which does not happen to a lot of people.

I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.