"I'm not very ambitious (...) I'm not proud of that. If I had been more ambitious, I probably wouldn't have stayed in Portugal, I would have left when I finished the Conservatory. At that time I could have chosen abroad to make a career, but no... I'm very attached.
"My struggle is to improve, improve, improve. My fight is the same. And I'm never happy, I'm always on the back foot, because, in general, I don't like to see myself".