“Relationships have to have a give and take if they’re going to work in the long term.”

A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

I’ve written many love songs for Gerard. But it’s never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.

I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I’m fine that way. I don’t need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?

I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.

I feel like I’m not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!

For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.

You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.

It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.

Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.

I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!

I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

I’d love to go to that World Cup – I’m not sure in what capacity, but I’ll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.

If you love something, let it go. If you don’t love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.

And you’d sure better not be doing it because it’s a way to make a living, ’cause that ain’t always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.

“Why doesn’t the fellow who says, “I’m no speechmaker,” let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? “

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

If the federal government is going to cost $100 million or more of your jobs going away, at a minimum the people who are elected by the people ought to have to vote and say, yes, I support taking away your job; or no, I don’t support taking away your job.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.

If I’m working with you for several months on things, if I have a relationship with you, and I decide one day I’m going to sue you,

Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.