I can be like a lioness when defending my people.

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.

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.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Hannah means The Honeycomb of Abundant nutrients which Nourish my soul to be Noble in my all networks with an Affable Humility.

If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.

New York is obviously the capital of theater.

I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.

All perishable is but an allegory.

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!

I travel with a boom box. When I get on a plane, I stuff the power cord for the boom box into the battery compartment. From an outsider's point of view, it looks like I've got it all wrong.

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to.