My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
My dad was a news editor for a Brazilian news station, and they had offices in New York and London.
I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.
It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments.
I'm an all-around fighter. I do everything. I've got wrestling; I've got Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and I've got striking.
I want to construct a better country for each Brazilian: pacified, just, without hate or rancor.
I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.
When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. Then the Clash led me to all these other kinds of music: classic rock, Stevie Wonder, world music, and Brazilian music. I got serious about jazz when I was probably about 14 or 15.
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.
When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people would come up to me and talk to me about articles she had written. 'That one on getting a Brazilian was hilarious', some guy said, high-fiving me.
