“I’m Colombian and nothing will change that.”

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.

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.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.