“My body feels like it is asking to reproduce.”

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.

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.

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

I’m not a guy that’s going to brag or feel like I’m better than the group.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.

Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, “I must be growing,” and continue moving forward.

I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.

I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, ‘My home is Cleveland.’

Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.

What you’re saying is that ‘I, the superior elite, will take care of you.’ Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can’t be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.