I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.

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

Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

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

My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music.