"When I was small, I was convinced that I was the best dancer. I never had dance classes but I would always try out all different forms of dance, from belly dancing to krumping, and now amapiano type dancing. I’m still learning but my love for dancing runs deep."

"I want to become the new reference and the start of something new."

"I grew up with a love for all types of sounds and never wanted to be tied down to one."

"I’ve just become someone who has a whole different level of pride for my home and where I come from."

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"I only regret my success has taken so long to achieve"

"I wasn’t astonished by Europe and I was never that impressed by the speed and grandeur of modern America"

"They’re going to feel my message through my presence and my music"

"Because I couldn’t find anyone to help me out in Cape Verde, I had to start recording in France in 1988"

"There was no real progress,” she acknowledged in Pulse!. “I wasn’t making any money out of it, so I just stopped"

"In Cape Verde ... I used to sing for tourists and for the ships when they would come there"

"I started singing in the neighborhood where I lived, just with my friends... It was just to amuse ourselves"

"Life in the islands is not easy, because there are very few resources, and you could say that my life and life in the islands are related"

"Now I work, and I see the results of my work, so I have some money,” she says. “But I’m still the same person that I was before. I still have the same simple life. I still have the same friends"

"I was born in a poor country. I was poor, but I lived all my life with what I had. I didn’t spend more than I had. Cape Verde is not the only place where there are poor people"

"I’m just a simple person. I’m not hard to understand."

"Women in Cape Verde are very strong, and we have a fighting spirit."

"That doesn’t happen to everybody, but it’s common in Cape Verde. That’s why in Cape Verde, women are always fighting for themselves and for their children"

"The fact that I sing about love doesn’t have anything to do with my emotional life. I think I didn’t have a husband because in Cape Verde, when you have a husband, you have a child, two children, three children. Then sometimes if the man wants, he just leaves you and you have to have another man to help you, because you cannot raise those children alone. It’s hard to live like that"

"I feel that something ain’t right; No fear but reasons that I can’t cite.Tear down the sun, Bring down the sun. I’m not everyone. I’m not everyone. I’m not everyone."

"I am one as you are three, Try to find a messiah in your trinity. Your city to burn, your city to burn, Try to look for something in your city to burn. You’ll burn.Am I as I seem? I’m down. Down, So down."

"Way down deep and in my heart Lies a soul that’s torn apart. Tell me, tell me what you’re after, I just want to get there faster."

"Could have known I would reveal. Should have known I would conceal your way."

"My daydream seems as one inside of you. Though it seems hard to reach through this life, Your blue and hopeless life. My daydream screams bitter ’til the end. The love I share, true, selfish to the heart, My heart, my sacred heart."

"Freak out and give in. Doesn't matter what you believe in. Stay cool And be somebody's fool this year. 'Cause they know Who is righteous, what is bold. So I'm told."

"I wanted more Than life could ever grant me. Bored by the chore Of saving face.Today is the greatest Day I've ever known. Can't wait for tomorrow, I might not have that long. I'll tear my heart out Before I get out."

"Faith lies in The ways of sin. I chased the charmed, But I don't want them anymore."

"Bleed in your own light, Dream of your own life. I miss me. I miss everything I’ll never be.And on and on, I torch my soul to show The world that I am pure. Deep inside my heart, No more lies."

"I used to be a little boy, So old in my shoes. And what I choose is my choice. What's a boy supposed to do? The killer in me is the killer in you, my love. I send this smile over to you."

"I'm all by myself, As I've always felt. And I'll betray my tears To anyone caught in our ruse of fools."

"So let the sadness come again, On that you can depend on me, yeah. Until the bitter, bitter end of the world, yeah, When God sleeps in bliss."

"We'll try and ease the pain, But somehow, we'll feel the same. Well, no one knows Where our secrets go."

"Fool enough to almost be it, And cool enough to not quite see it. And old enough to always feel this. Always old, I'll always feel this. No more promise, no more sorrow, No longer will I follow. Can anybody hear me? I just want to be me."

"What moonsongs Do you sing your babies? What sunshine do you bring? Who belongs? Who decides who's crazy? Who rights wrongs where others cling?"

"Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave Without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel."

"Emptiness is loneliness And loneliness is cleanliness And cleanliness is godliness And God is empty just like me.Intoxicated with the madness, I'm in love with my sadness."

"The world is a vampire, Sent to drain. Secret destroyers Hold you up to the flames. And what do I get For my pain? Betrayed desires And a piece of the game."

"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage. Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage. Someone will say, "What is lost can never be saved" Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage."

"I fear that I am ordinary, Just like everyone To lie here and die among the sorrows Adrift among the days For everything I ever said And everything I've ever done is gone And dead.As all things must surely have to end And great loves will one day have to part I know that I am meant for this world."

"My life has been extraordinary, Blessed and cursed and won. Time heals but I'm forever broken By and by the way Have you ever heard the words I'm singin' in these songs? It's for the girl I've loved all along. Can a taste of love be so wrong?"

"Speak to me in a language I can hear, Humor me before I have to go. Deep in thought, I forgive everyone. As the cluttered streets greet me once again, I know I can't be late. Supper's waitin' on the table. Tomorrow's just an excuse away, So I pull my collar up and face the cold, on my own."

"The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk. Steeple guide me to my heart and home, The sun is out and up and down again.I know I'll make it, love can last forever Graceful swans of never topple to the earth."

"And I don't even care To shake these zipper blues. And we don't know Just where our bones will rest. To dust I guess, Forgotten and absorbed into the earth Below."

"That we don't even care, As restless as we are. We feel the pull In the land of a thousand guilts And poured cement."

"It’s you that I adore, You’ll always be my whore. You’ll be the mother to my child, And a child to my heart."

"Lovely girl, you're the murder in my world, Dressing coffins for the souls I've left to die. Drinking mercury to the mystery Of all that you should ever leave behind In time."

"I know we're just like old friends. We just can't pretend That lovers make amends.We are reasons so unreal, We can't help but feel That something has been lost."

"But please, you know you're just like me. Next time (Time), I promise we'll bePerfect, Perfect, Perfect strangers down the line, Lovers out of time. Memories unwind.So far, I still know who you are, But now (Now), I wonder who I was."

"Who am I to need you now? To ask you why? To tell you no? To deserve your love and sympathy? You were never meant to belong to me.And you may go, but I know you won’t leave. Too many years built into memories. Your life is not your own."