“Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.”

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.

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you’re always giving interviews.

I think I was pretty reckless and definitely a bit out of control. Now, I’m more focused.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

The truth is, normal might take years. Normal might never happen. But its definitely not going to happen if i lounge around here watching soaps and avoiding life. Im going to school today, end of story.

Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.

I’m definitely a hair down girl. I’m a fan of the natural, earthy look.

Did you hear something, nora? Vee asked. I thought i heard something. You definitely heard something, i agreed. Could that be a dog fart i heard? Vee asked me.

I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.