Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political cont….

Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed i….

We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalga….

Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of internation….

Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion..

I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we al….

We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage..

Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogen….

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba..

Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situat….

Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz guys o….

The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establ….

I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet..