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I'm like any Brazilian: I like to go out and enjoy myself.

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because of my features, sometimes even American, as I have a slight American accent when I speak English.

I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

I'm very much half city and half country boy.

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.