“If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I’ve gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.”

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.

A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.