“I’m convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.”

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.

I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element.

I’m barefoot whenever I can be.

When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs.

Elixir’ means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.

I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you.

Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!

I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they’re women, they’re in positions because they’re intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.