“We’ve built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.”

I adore my dad. He’s a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.

Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I’ve got followers there who I’ve been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele.

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.

Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.

The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.

I have a lot of anger built up in me from my childhood. My wife and kids are the only ones who give me peace in this world.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.