“A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.”

A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.

I’ve written many love songs for Gerard. But it’s never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.

I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I’m fine that way. I don’t need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?

I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.

I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!

For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.

You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.

It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.

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 was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!

I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

I’d love to go to that World Cup – I’m not sure in what capacity, but I’ll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.

Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.