I don't think I would want my children to enter into my profession. There's a lot of stress and so much competition. There are easier things you can do with your life.

Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.

It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.

Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs

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

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today, I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.