The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

Of course for a Colombian girl it was always impossible to even imagine becoming an international popstar, but my dream became reality.

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

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