“I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.”

I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.

I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we’re made of.

Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.

I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.

It’s very difficult to think that you’re with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don’t know them: it turns out that they betray you. It’s painful, but it’s best to turn the page.

I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain’s face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn’t see his face.

I’ve shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest’s.

I am an avid believer that education – and especially early childhood development – is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.

People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.

In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.

I know what I’m doing even when I’m wearing a pencil skirt.

And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.

If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.

I have more ideas than I’ll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.

And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.

You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.

I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.

If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It’s not going to happen.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.