“Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.”

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.

I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It’s an adventure, a dream…

Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won’t crumble around me.

I’m a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are – there’s no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don’t see!

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots.

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

I don’t feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

So in that respect I could be called one, although I don’t think I’ll go off the rails.

I’m a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London –