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

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.

We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.

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.

You write to find out what you believe.

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

If you don’t find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.

He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

We find our power in the same place as our pain.

I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can’t help but slip at times.

When you’re not finding the fairway, it’s hard to be consistent. [Right now] I’m comfortable and I’m not so comfortable, if that makes sense.

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.