Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

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

I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

There's no better makeup than self-confidence.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.

I can be like a lioness when defending my people.

Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.

Live your life to the fullest.

The next thing to do after discovering who you are is to build and add value to yourself

Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to spanWhen it gathers to egg once more

There's nothing that the road cannot heal

There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

Part of me was always trying to prove that I belonged and prove that I deserved the job and prove that I could handle it. And that takes the fun out of it.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.