"DOCUMENTARY BUM HEART" "Don't worry!" "INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE SONG PROIBIDO PROIBIR" "And I say:" ""Prohibiting is prohibited"..." "Out of tune, with no melody... you guys don't understand a thing!" "Not a thing!" "Absolutely!" "Enough!" "35 YEARS LATER" "ALBUM RELEASE FOREIGN SOUND" "It's a small show, a short show... a "Blowjob show"... a "pocket show"." "Featuring American songs..." "I'm recording presently." "A friend jokingly called it a "Blowjob show"." "Because the Portuguese word for "blowjob" sounds like "pocket"." "I said it once, but just once... to the audience." "People might not like me recording American songs... and they might complain..." "But there's no reason behind it..." "And even if there is a reason it won't bother me... because it's not important." "But it also depends..." "on what they say." "I take a lot of shit... but not all the time!" "Please... turn off your pagers and cell phones..." "The artist requests that you refrain from smoking... during the show." "Strange dear" "But true dear" "When I'm close to you, Dear" "The stars fill the sky" "So in love with you am I" "I don't like flipping out..." "Every time I flip out, I regret it..." "I regret it because it shouldn't happen." "I don't like to lose my cool." "At the Prohibiting is Prohibited incident..." "I got upset, but I also felt proud." "I set out to confound, and I did." "At the time, public opinion was... mostly anti-government and nationalistic." "They reacted against... they were already reacting against rock'n roll... in our music." "Showing approval to rock was scandalous... because everyone grew up with us." "They thought it was a fad, that it was cheap commercial... rubbish that wouldn't stand the test oftime." "Something for ignorant suburban teens." "But all that changed... and tropicalism played a big part in that change." "And it took people from Bahia living in São Paulo." "Baianos who had a tradition of revolutionary inspiration... like João Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi." "And it happened in São Paulo where you feel like... you can communicate directly with the world." "Because Brazil is very closed off." "Big countries are like that." "NEW YORK, 2004" " Americans are..." "NEW YORK, 2004 - more like that than us." "But they don't have this problem... because the entire world knows who they are." "Till I die" "I heard on the radio, on the way here... the guy saying that on Friday they are going to have this... this thing on me." "Than the driver said to me:" ""You know, I heard on this radio station... a recording of yours of Come As You Are... the Nirvana's song... and I had never understood the words... this is the first time, it's beautiful."" "Very funny this fat guy who was driving the car." ""It's hard to think of anyone else... who could provide such an amazing insight... into american music... from an outsider's point of view."" "I think it's great..." "I think it was the album's greatest... achievement." "Deceive me, Desert me" "I don't know..." "The truth is... for a long time I took great care over everything." "But..." "I die..." "So in love..." "When Moreno was a child, he said:" ""Dad, this looks like Santo Amaro"." "It's very alike." "So in love with you, My love..." "Am I..." "I don't think about living abroad." "But when I think about it, if I have to..." "I can only think about two places..." "New York and Madrid." "They were the two spots the terrorists attacked." "Now the rehearsal, the rehearsal... for Friday's show... which is my show with the band." "It was horrible." "Now our guitars have to... acclimatize to the northern hemisphere." "Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon" "The handmade blade, The child's balloon" "Eclipses both The sun and moon" "To understand you know too soon" "There is no sense in trying." "Pointed threats They bluff with scorn" "Suicide remarks are torn" "I was just..." "giving an interview... which would serve as the prologue for an English documentary... made in Rio... about me." "Actually about Brazilian music... about Brazil, focusing on me." "So I can show off a bit of Brazil... and talk about myself." "And the film is on tonight." "And you?" "What are you doing here?" "One more person crying." "So don't fear If you hear" "A foreign sound To your ear" "It's going to be hard telling him... but I'm definitely not putting on makeup." "They can wear makeup... it's just that I have this principle... this paranoia." "I don't want to look like a stupid politician." "You want my opinion?" "He has good color." "He told me my skin tone is good... meaning that it's okay if I go on without makeup." "So there it is, that's been dealt with." "I didn't have to argue about it." "I was afraid, since we're in the U.S., that they would say:" ""Here we have a strict rule... all performers in this show must... wear makeup."" " Security reasons" " Security reasons." "INTERVIEW WITH CHARLIE ROSE BLOOMBERG TELEVISION" "I'm in a waiting room about to be interviewed on TV." "I'm really tired... and I hope I can do it." "We're going to leave him some tickets... but I'll say exactly how many." "We'll leave him about four or five tickets." "...A Foreign Sound comes from." "What's the line?" "From the song It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)." "And it says..." "It's the first refrain of the song..." "It goes: "So don't fear if you hear" "A foreign sound to your ear" "It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing"" "And the influence was Gilberto and the Bossa Nova?" "No doubt." "João Gilberto and Bossa Nova..." "When I heard João Gilberto for the first time... it was like enlightement, you know?" " It was like..." " What did you listen to?" "As a matter of fact, it was just, you know... a lesson on beauty and on taste." " And it's never lost its power in Brazil." " No." "Not in me, at least." "What do you have on your wrist?" "Well, it's something from Bahia, I'm from Bahia." "But I like the color." "I have trouble understanding English." "It's funny because it seemed so easy at school... but I never took a real course outside school... and I never lived in an English speaking country... until I was 25 or 26... when I went to London." "I lived with Brazilians." "So I spoke very little English I heard relatively little English... so I never got used to it." "I don't feel... comfortable with the English language." "The other day I was interviewed... at the Museum of Television and Radio... and I felt so at ease." "Everyhting was clear, I understood everything the guy said..." "I felt comfortable talking." "I talked my head off..." "I was agressive and fun... at the same time, you know?" "Like I can be when I'm in a good mood." "But on Charlie Rose's show..." "I felt like this third-world person... who doesn't have that... international savy." "Because I'm from Santo Amaro..." "I grew up in Santo Amaro until I was 18." "I'm not from São Paulo... from the big city..." "I wasn't born thinking I was part of the big wide world." "No..." "I grew up in a really small town... and I stayed there until I was 18." "Meu coração não se cansa De ter esperança" "De um dia ser tudo que quer" "Meu coração de criança Não é só a lembrança" "De um vulto feliz de mulher" " Hello?" " Hello, Caetano." "Sorry, there's nobody home." " OK, but open the door anyway." " Bye." "This is Ana Barca." " Excuse me." "How are you?" " How are you?" "Em mim" "Meu coração vagabundo Quer guardar o mundo em mim" "This apartment here is pretty casual... but the house in Salvador has touches of Paulinha... the apartment in Rio is pure Paulinha..." "Not only the money to get to pay for it... but also when it comes to the ability to deal with business..." "Paulinha is unbeatable." " She's really incomparable." " It's bad to say things like that." "Is it bad to say good things about someone?" "Are you Chinese?" "What I'm supposed to say here is: "It's such a shame, we don't have anything." "Our houses are so simple... and so..."" "Let's look at the New York Times." ""Exile on 57th Street."" "And so they bring the soup, right... with the two balls..." "Like..." " Is this a joke?" " Now it's a joke." " Ok, then tell it." " I am telling it." "And Marilyn said..." " Marilyn who?" " It's simple..." "Marilyn Monroe." "She apparently said that and looked like that..." "Her mother asked..." "So, how are you liking the Matzo Balls?" "And she says..." ""I'm liking it a lot... but poor animal."" "She thinks she is dumb blonde like Marilyn Monroe." " I don't get it." " "Why should they kill the animal?"" "Why should they kill the poor animal?" "Meu coração vagabundo Quer guardar o mundo em mim" "Blue skies smiling' at me" "Nothin'but blue skies do I see" "Carnegie Hall has an amazing history... and I've known about it since childhood..." "So Carnegie Hall... from movies, and from other people..." "And it's very respected here." "Yesterday David Byrne said to me:" ""Playing in Spain... is pretty easy, but playing in Carnegie Hall!"" "And he's American, from New York." "The people from Carnegie Hall... asked me to do a show and... to select musicians... for the rest of the week... with artists chosen by me... naturally, that's how it works." "Naturally, I chose Brazilians, whose work I know best..." "I lined up:" "Afro Reggae, Martinalia..." "Augusto de Campos... but Augusto got sick and couldn't come..." "It would be very nice." "But the others came and the American I invited... was David Byrne... who is an amazing artist, that I admire very much." "He has had a productive and different... relationship with Brazilian music... which has transformed the way Americans... and foreigners... relate and listen to Brazilian music." "O Tio Sam está querendo conhecer A nossa batucada" "Anda dizendo que o molho da baiana Melhorou seu prato" "Vai entrar no cuscuz Acarajé e abará" "Na Casa Branca já cantou A batucada de ioiô, iaiá" "Brasil, esquentai vossos..." "It was the same challenge faced by Tropicalists... who tried to overcome provincial thinking in Brazil... from within." "You know?" "It's hard..." "That's why today's unprovincial... self-proclaimed cosmopolitans... who feel they're better than other Brazilians... dismiss us and fail to acknowledge... the huge effort that was made by a group of people from Bahia... some of whom were from the interior." "They found in the people of São Paulo... the ideal partners with whom we could create... a sort of battering-ram... to knock down this wall... of Brazilian musical... provincialism..." "Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada Mostrar seu valor" "Já fui à Penha Fui pedir à padroeira para me ajudar" "Salve o Morro do Vintém Pendura a saia, eu quero ver" "Eu quero ver o Tio Sam Tocar pandeiro para o mundo sambar" "O Tio Sam está querendo conhecer A nossa batucada" "Anda dizendo que o molho da baiana Melhorou seu prato" "I couldn't tune it!" "O really can't play the guitar well... and sometimes it's even unacceptable." "I never played the guitar when I was recording in Brazil..." "I only started after coming back from London... because in London they approved my way of playing..." "If they hired a good guitar player to play with Bob Dylan... and a good harmonica player..." "Bob Dylan wouldn't be Bob Dylan." "I don't really feel... that a Nelson Cavaquinho samba... is any better if Geraldo Vespar plays it... instead of Nelson Cavaquinho..." "It's the opposite, in fact." "Expressão que não tem Para o meu Brasil" "Brasil, esquentai vossos pandeiros, Iluminai os terreiros" "Que nós queremos sambar" "Brasil, esquentai vossos pandeiros, Iluminai os terreiros" "Que nós queremos sambar" "Well done, dude!" "I don't have three feet I only have two." "I'm not nervous..." "I was worried about my throat, my voice... because I didn't get enough rest..." "This thing of performing at one in the afternoon." "Means I have to be quiet now." "Now you're going to make a Bergman film..." ""Tystnaden."" "And another by Antonioni with me... and that quiet guy... that still frame... that shows a wall and someone's face." "Antonioni." "I think Antonioni is divine..." "At least two of his films are masterpieces:" "L'Avventura and The Passenger..." "The Passenger... has that amazing final sequence..." "Have you seen it?" "It has this closing sequence that... begins on Jack Nicholson's face... as he is lying on his bed like this, asleep... and the camera glides across the room... and drifts out the window, it just turns slightly... and goes out the window." "THE PASSENGER (MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI)" "Visione del silenzio Angolo vuoto" "Pagina senza parole Una lettera scritta" "Sopra un viso Di pietra e vapore" "Film buffs look at that... and spend hours... trying to figure out how they did that." "Later I knew how it was done..." "I watched the movie with him... but at the moment of the scene." "He started crying..." "I started weeping." "I cried a lot too." "He was really moved when he saw how it turned out... and he was almost ninety." "Let's meet him in Brazil." "Let's go to Bahia." "Visione del silenzio Angolo vuoto" "Pagina senza parole" "Una lettera scritta sopra un visio" "Di pietra e vapore Amore" "Good evening, everyone, and welcome again... it's an honour to have you this evening..." "On this wonderful and warm Saturday evening..." " She's telling us the weather." " This is your team... we'll start in 15 minutes, thank you." "You're welcome." " They couldn't." " This is your 10 minute call." "We now have 10 minutes before we start." "I must be aware of that." " We heard." " We heard." "I can't believe I'm doing this." "What?" "I'm on Carnegie Hall with Caetano Veloso." "Wake me up!" "Wake me up!" "Jaques Morelenbaum (Cellist) Said you got really nervous..." "I really did." "I lost my concentration." "He said they were all Americans, there wasn't a single Brazilian." "And I paid real close attention to you." "Some people did this..." "others did that..." "People's reactions were incredible." "There was a shopping mall" "Now it's all covered with flowers" "He sings wonderfully in Portuguese..." "And he sings just as well in English... and in any language he wants." "He can even sing in French if he wants!" "Have you already talked about Caetano and Gisele yesterday?" "Look at his face, look at his smile." "It's amazing." " Gisele is beautiful." " Thank you, darling." " You're cute!" " Thanks." " You're sweet, cute." " Cute." "Calm down." "She brings us all peace." "Paulinha emanates peace and tranquility." "Say whatever you want." "I don't care." "Classy lady, educated in the best schools!" "Honey, you know what I think?" "I don't mind golden horns." "If I'm going to be cuckolded it might as well be... because of Gisele Bündchen..." " instead of some tart." " I don't want to talk to you anymore!" "You can use the radio." "Can you pass me Ben Ratliff's number?" " She's got it." " You have all these numbers?" " Don't you?" " Find Chico, OK?" "I'm going to look for Chico's..." "and Gisele's number..." " Ben Ratliff's number..." " I'll give it to you." "Gisele Bundchen's number, Susan Sontag's..." "I can easily give you Susan Sontag's." "Susan's and Ben's." "Behave yourself." "Guys, take care of him." "Look, the keys are there, take them... don't forget the keys when you go out." "Bye." "Good trip for you, guys." "Bye." "Paula herself is a character." "I like very best to talk with women." "My inspiration in my movies... is based in... all the women that I met in my life." "And Paula is one of them." "Paula is very exuberant, very barroca and exagerated." "And it's a good example for me... quando estou escrevendo um personagem feminino." "Eu podia..." "Não sei por que estou falando em inglês." "When I think of Brazil I think... of my time hanging out in Caetano's house... and the pleasant rhythm of his life." "I feel like Caetano's brother." "As if he were my older brother." "Que una paloma triste Muy de mañana le va a cantar" "A la casita sola" "In this musical moment... for me to be sure that people understand that this man is crying..." "I had to have something that would produce the tears." "And I had to be sure... that I could make the audience cry." "I wanted an absolute feeling a clear feeling." "I remembered how I cried... while I wrote parts of Talk to Her... as I listened to Cucurucu Paloma." "I felt that if I put Caetano live... on stage singing this it would work..." "I wanted to create a direct experience... that was heart to heart... or flesh to flesh... human being to human being... of something that is alive." "He could also create this ambience, this sense of beauty... because everyone there admires him." "If you put a CD on or just have the music in the soundtrack... people won't react and feel the same." "So I put Caetano there, as I said... because it's what allowed me to... create strong enough emotions... to make the characters cry." "Caetano gives me goose bumps." "You wanted me to buy something tomorrow..." " is there something..." " I like..." "What's that?" "I'm in the silence that's suddenly heard after the passing of a car" "I'm in the silence that's suddenly heard after the passing of a car" "I'm the silence that's suddenly heard after the passing of a car" "Spaces grow wide about me" "Spaces grow wide about me" "If you look from your window at the morning star" "You won't see me You won't see" "You won't see me You'll only see" "You won't see me You'll only" "You won't see me You'll only see" "You won't see me You'll only see that you can't see very far" "You won't see me You won't see" "You won't see me You'll only see" "You won't see me You'll only" "You won't see me You'll only see" "You won't see me You'll only" "You won't see me You'll only see" "You won't see me You'll only" "You won't see me You won't see" "God spoke to me." "I saw it, I opened it and was astounded." "The view is just beautiful." "The arrival was awful because... the sniffer dog thought there were drugs in my guitar..." "They showed a book with questions... and drawings and they asked..." ""Did you bring this?" "And pointed at marijuana..."" "And needles... and weapons and a variety of guns... while they searched for drugs the whole thing took forever... and they body-searched us..." "Grabbed us... they grabbed and squeezed my dick." "Then they squeezed Giovanna's breasts." " Exactly." " I'd never seen anything like that..." "It doesn't hurt, but it's uncomfortable." "I don't know the guy." "That's a good one." " We're gonna be beheaded?" " Stop!" "What are you doing?" " I'm visiting the palace." " Palace?" " We call it castle." " Castle." " Yes." " I said "palace" not "castle"." " I'm sorry." " No, no, no." "You're welcome." "You and your friend..." " Please, come in." " Okay." "How much was this?" "It still has the price." "The castle." "I bought this castle." "Quando olhei a terra ardendo" "Qual fogueira de São João" "Look how beautiful... the Golden Palace." "Eu perguntei a Deus do céu, ai Por que tamanha judiação" "While I was on the plane... next to Los Angeles..." "Looking from above as the plane came in to land..." "I suddenly felt this desire... to write something about that view... a song about that image." "Some things happen just like that..." "I was on a plane, and was tired, vulnerable and alone... and when I looked down..." "I had a strange emotional response that I could only work out... by writing a song." "And so I started dreaming up a song..." "I haven't written it yet, but..." "I guess I'm going to have to." "I've been feeling sad about my life lately." "Not because... of any of this." "But because of my personal life, at home." "But one doesn't talk about such things..." "Break a leg!" "Quando eu me encontrava preso Na cela de uma cadeia" "Foi que eu vi pela primeira vez As tais fotografias" "Em que apareces inteira Porém, lá não estavas nua" "E sim, coberta de nuvens" "Terra, Terra" "Por mais distante O errante navegante" "Quem jamais te esqueceria" "Ninguém, supõe a morena Dentro da estrela azulada" "Na vertigem do cinema Mando um abraço pra ti" "Pequenina Como se eu fosse o saudoso poeta" "E fosses a Paraíba" "Terra, Terra" "Por mais distante O errante navegante" "Quem jamais te esqueceria" " Sing it" " Terra, Terra" "Smooth." "Por mais distante O errante navegante" "Quem jamais te esqueceria" "One more time, everybody sing, the japanese." "Terra, Terra" "Por mais distante O errante navegante" "Quem jamais te esqueceria" "Nas sacadas dos sobrados Da velha São Salvador" "Há lembranças de donzelas Do tempo do imperador" "Tudo, tudo na Bahia Faz a gente querer bem" "A Bahia tem um jeito" "Terra, terra" "Por mais distante O errante navegante" "Quem jamais te esqueceria" "Very, very fantastic." "And beautiful..." "And romantic..." "That's all, thank you." "Meu coração vagabundo..." "Gosto muito de te ver, leãozinho Caminhando sobre o sol" "Gosto de te ver ao sol, leãozinho De te ver entrar no mar" "Tua pele, tua luz, tua juba" "Gosto de ficar ao sol, leãozinho De molhar minha juba" "De estar perto de você e entrar numa" "Um filhote de leão Raio da manhã" "Arrastando meu olhar como um imã" "You feel the weight of humiliation... of what it means to be from a third world country... to be racially suspect... and to speak a language whose literature is unknown." "You feel all that." "My last recording..." "A Foreign Sound, featured American songs." "I knew in making it I would encounter... a series of obstacles... unless I changed my attitude... just for that project." "But I wasn't about to do that." "I even thought of not going ahead with the recording..." "I ended up recording it, because I feel that I can do anything I please..." "I don't worry about certain things." "It's not that I can do anything I want and it'll automatically be good... that I'm so fucking great that I'm above it all." "It just that it doesn't bother me that much." "Magazine asks:" "Caetano said the world's best music... with the best quality was American music... followed by Cuban music." "Is there a ranking?" "Hermeto Pascoal answers:" "Yes, there is." "World's best music is Brazilian." "The U.S. Are gone." "You can't get this from a man... like Caetano... that's a great poet, but sucks like musician." "Well, that's Hermeto's opinion." "I didn't know Hermeto had said something about that." "But... it's true that I'm not... a great musician..." "I'm not a great poet either." "Hermeto is a super musician." "He's extremely capable, and has quite an ear for music... and with an... unceasing apetite for creativity." "He's insatiable." "He is a formidable character." "But it's also true... that while I'm not a great musician... the United States also have produced the 20th century's greatest music..." "Because it's where there is by far... the greatest number of people... that he cannot say they suck." "More so than Brazil or Cuba." "Right?" "Because there's a huge tradition there." "Brazil has a unique quality anyone can... use their own poverty... and use it, spirituality... to tap into the essence of music... and make something better." "I don't know." "That's another issue." "Then he can't say I suck." "Because that's another matter entirely." "According to his criteria, the United States are devastatingly good." "He is only a drop in this huge ocean... of incredible people that have been doing... the most incredible things... that he obviously has always admired." "Clearly... much more than what sophisticated Brazilians produce." "You hear his music and you can see it for yourself!" "I am not the one that says that American music... is the best... the most important of the 20th century." "Hermeto's own music says that." "Quem foi, quem foi que andou dizendo?" "Que eu vivo sempre chorando Que eu vivo sempre sofrendo" "Não tem razão quem me fez esta maldade" "Eu vivo sofrendo, é verdade Mas sofro sorrindo e cantando" "The thing at the station was:" "Tlen ton, tlen ton tlen ton, tlen ton" "Then I said:" ""Who was it, who... used to say?"" "Look, look, look!" "He's doing the dance at the station." "Walk down Portobello road To the sound of reggae" "I'm alive" "The age of gold, Yes the age of" "The age of old The age of gold" "The age of music is past" "I hear them talk as I walk Yes I hear them talk" "I hear they say Expect the final blast" "Walk down Portobello road To the sound of reggae" "I'm alive" "I'm alive E vivo, muito vivo, vivo, vivo" "Feel the sound of music Banging in my belly" "Belly, belly, belly" "Know that one day I must die" "I'm alive" "And I know that one day I must die" "KYOTO I must die" "I'm alive" "Yes I know that one day I must die" "I'm alive" "I'm alive E vivo, muito vivo, vivo, vivo" "In the Eletric Cinema Or on the telly, telly, telly" "Nine out of ten movie stars Make me cry" "I'm "cool" when it comes to anything but food." "Japanese food for example... there's always an elegant main course... that looks like a minimalist work of art." "But the dessert is always so lurid... it's always that nauseating aniline bean paste... with that tacky pink colour..." "Or a brash blue, or gaudy green." "That tastes awful." "It's funny." "So many beautiful things here." "Thank you very much." " I like Coração Vagabundo." " Coração Vagabundo!" "I know." "I love it." "Oh my." "Can you believe he likes Coração Vagabundo?" "I like it too." "I wrote it when I was very young." "Many years ago." "I heard it many times here, Coração Vagabundo." "He said the temple is 500 years old." "So I told him that it's the same age as Brazil." "That's unbelievable:" "A massage chair... in a Buddhist temple." "Dessert." " It's made of bean, isn't it?" " Green bean." "These Japanese desserts are always like this... made of bean and pink." "Fernando can't stop laughing." "Fernando?" "What's wrong with Fernando?" "Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon" "The handmade blade The child's balloon" "Eclipses both The sun and moon" "To understand you know too soon There is no sense in trying." "Pointed threats They bluff with scorn" "Suicide remarks are torn From the fool's gold mouthpiece" "The hollow horn plays wasted words Proves to warn" "That he not busy being born Is busy dying" "Temptation's page flies out the door You follow, find yourself at war" "Watch waterfalls of pity roar You feel to moan but unlike before" "You discover that you'd just be One more person crying" "So don't fear If you hear" "A foreign sound to your ear" "It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing" "I don't really like being unfathomable... to seem to be something that... not even I know what it is that nobody knows what it is." "I don't like it." "So I often de-mystify myself." "I find it unnerving when people act... like they're... possessed by something... that they're not quite aware of... and others just can't understand." "I don't want to be like that." "Bob Dylan wants to be like that." "But I don't." "Especially because people sometimes... use this to exert excessive power over others..." "I also see this as an issue of justice." "I don't like obscure behavior..." "I don't like to be fooled or to fool people." "That's what I mean by lucid." "I belong to the sun, and I want to be lucid and happy." "It's really hard, but I keep trying, making an effort." "I prefer to explain myself." "People from other countries see me singing..." "Cucurucu Paloma in Pedro Almodóvar's film..." "And they say:" ""It is such a magical moment"." "And then they meet me, they see me talking... and sometimes they talk..." "Many people get... they seem disappointed..." "Because they expected someone inscrutable... as if they expected someone who was more, you know?" "Mysterious." "It's as if they expected to meet someone who was unable to speak... who was possessed by that feeling... but that's not who I am." "I'm this guy you're seeing here." "But the fact is that is how I deal with these things." "I'd love to be one of these people who have no religion... and don't really care." "I think that's how it should be." "I think people shouldn't have a religion." "Like the John Lennon song Imagine..." ""Imagine no religion", I think that is so great." "I lean towards being anti-religious..." "Sometimes I feel the need to counteract religion." "Because it's all so full of dishonesty, isn't it?" "It goes back to that whole issue of a lack of transparency... of oppressing people, too... and it's about maintaining structures of hierarchy and power..." "It's just so full of dishonesty what you see... around the place, this disrespect, this bullshit." "It's when I bring up these things that I feel deep down like a revolutionary." "I feel like changing the world and putting an end to this crap." "Some people shut it out from an early age." "Others keep an open mind... into adulthood." "If it's magic Then why can't it be everlasting" "What's wrong with thinking someone is old?" "I don't think I'm old... like people used to be considered old in the past... and can be considered today, old people... when you see they're old." "At my age, today, if you're not ill... you're not old." "I think it's part of life..." "There is no use fearing too much... because everybody gets old... and the human being can cope with that." "You can't throw... everything that's bad into a single situation... like old age." "It's kind of stupid to do that... because sometimes you... have already experienced the worst... thing that life has to offer." "It's funny, we think that when we become older... even when we're 50 or 60... or even 40, we begin to learn more... there's time." "It's funny when you're young... it seems like you have to make time for everything." "But when you're older... you know more about... how time works." "When I was 20, I didn't have children and didn't even think... about having children, I thought I never was going to have children." "Today my eldest son is going to have a child." "There are things that... anyone who doesn't die early goes through... and it's better to experience them than to die young." "Because I think it is better to be than not to be." " Look the bamboo." " It's a baby." "It's a Veloso bamboo." "This is a Veloso baby." "This one is a Moreno child." "Once upon a time I thought... that when I died I would like to be cremated... so I wouldn't have to be in one particular place..." "But then I thought that... maybe I should be taken to the Santo Amaro Cemitery... and rest alongside my father and my daughter." "But it's just a place... because it's Santo Amaro." "Luz do sol Que a folha traga e traduz" "Em verde novo Em folha, em graça" "Em vida, em força, em luz" "The one that is with me you're going to keep... because she wants me to take it to Rio." "I'll have another one, but we'll see it later..." "Meu coração não se cansa De ter esperança" "De um dia ser tudo o que quer" "Meu coração de criança Não é só a lembrança" "De um vulto feliz de mulher" "I'll leave it for you, on the table next to your bed..." "Connie's number, Jorge's number..." "Susan Sontag's Now, Ben Ratliffs..." "I'll get it with Connie and I'll give you later." " Okay." " And mine too, it's just that..." "She didn't leave Gisele's." "I thought she was joking." "Em mim" "Meu coração vagabundo" "They call me Gilberto Gil on the streets, in Brazil." " Roberto." " And Roberto Gil even more." "I guess they believe Gil's name is Roberto Gil... and they call me Roberto Gil." "A lot of confusion." "I've seen some people in the hippie time like this." "They took drugs and hugged a tree." "I never did that." "I did more than that." "It's a big organ." "Bigger than Jorge Helder's." "Do you think they have small organs in Japan?" "It's Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso." "It's not like velocity, it's like..." ""fleece"." "It's like... fleece." "It's Velvet Caetano." "Caetano Veloso means Hairy Caetano." "Meu coração vagabundo" "I remember that in Santo Amaro there was something about... having sex with the banana tree." "This is a tree you can have sex with." "Because it's soft." "You make a hole and do it." "No, I thought about it, I wanted..." "There were banana trees on the yard, it was big..." "I could go away and try to do it." "I even dreamed about..." "This is Lady Diana." "Did I tell you I met her?" " Yes, in Rio." " Really?" "We had dinner together." "She said: "What kind of music do you work with?"" "I said: "Well, pop music." "I write and sing popular music"." "She said: "I only listen to classical music"." "Is that what she said?" "Classical and Elton John." "It's unbelievable." "She was known to be a Duran Duran fan." "The ambassador's wife... was one of those british ladies very flaming." "She said to us:" ""I had to call..." "Buckingham to tell the princess... not to wear purple."" "Because the president said that he had..." ""aquilo roxo"." "My balls are purple." "When she arrived, she looked at me and said..." ""I read your message."" "I don't know if I wear glasses, if I don't..." "I guess I'll wear the glasses." "I prefer without the glasses." "Because I'm not in shape." "It's better." "A tristeza é senhora" "Desde que o samba é samba é assim" "A lágrima clara sobre a pele escura" "À noite, a chuva que cai lá fora" "Solidão apavora Tudo demorando em sertão ruim" "Mas alguma coisa acontece No quando agora em mim" "Cantando eu mando a tristeza embora" "O samba ainda vai nascer" "O samba ainda não chegou" "O samba não vai morrer Veja, o dia ainda não raiou" "O samba é pai do prazer O samba é filho da dor" "O grande poder transformador" "A tristeza é senhora" "Desde que o samba é samba é assim" "A lágrima clara sobre a pele escura" "À noite, a chuva que cai lá fora" "Solidão apavora Tudo demorando em sertão ruim" "Mas alguma coisa acontece No quando agora em mim" "Cantando eu mando a tristeza embora" "Cantando eu mando a tristeza embora" "Cantando eu mando a tristeza embora" "Cantando eu mando a tristeza embora" "If you are with someone, like you are with me... all the time, like a pain in the ass... you end up seeing the person changing the clothes." "And then you complain I change the clothes all the time." "Come on!" "Excuse me."