“I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I’ve been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don’t get a chance to be heard.”

I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.

My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.

What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it’s not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It’s a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It’s a very mental game.

When you feel complete, you don’t need to get married, and you don’t think about it.

It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.

I remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.

I just don’t find marriage a necessary step in a couple’s life.

I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.

I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.

Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We’re very alike; it’s not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it’s just that he was born 10 years later… he’s a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.

If you do some wonderful service and if you tell people what you did in a boastful way, it nullifies the credit of your service, may not be in the eternal platform, but in your conscious condition you will not be able to reap the benefits of that service.

Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can’t cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

Modularize, don’t customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

I never felt typecast because when I was in television, I was also, simultaneously, in films. I was seen across platforms, so that’s why I have not been put in a category.

All the big actors are now on TV, and all the big actors have come from TV. It’s a great platform.