“I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.”

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.

I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend’s children, but I don’t think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don’t have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.

I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

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

I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries.

I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.

You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

I’m more afraid of marriage than death.

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.

I know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.

Nine times out of ten, I’m trying to meet someone else’s expectations, whether it’s the director or the writer or the animator

I feel like pain is the quickest way to relate to someone because everybody has been through that and everybody has had a heartbreak.

The thing is, when you put a button in someone’s hand and give them the power of yes or no is a shorter word. People just say no.

I need someone to eat breakfast with and watch Adventure Time with!

It’s honest. I can’t portray to you something that I’ve never been through or something I didn’t watch someone close to me go through.

Someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you.

If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.