“I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off.”

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.

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.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It’s the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.

My dad used to say, ‘Just be yourself and you’ll be fine,’ but it’s really, really true.

My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

Losing dad (Bobby Bonds) was the worst thing in the world.

My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don’t really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.

My dad was a fairy,” said Zach. “And by that I don’t mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.