After all, by providing early access to medicine, nutrition and stimulation, early childhood development creates lifelong improvements in health, cognitive development, school achievement, and social equality.

You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.

I apply the same amount of dedication to being a mom as I do to my music...

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

I consider myself a survivor more than anything else.

A poor child who receives high-quality early childhood development is 40 percent less likely to need special education, twice as likely to attend college and dramatically more likely to survive childhood.

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.