“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 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.

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

The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.

With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.

I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it’s still nothing but a copy.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let’s say it this way: I’m really late.

If I hold you any closer I’ll be in back of you!

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.