I've never actually felt completely human. Don't you sometimes feel that inside of you there's another living creature, more primal, more primitive and basic, more animalistic? I like to think that whenever I screw up it's not entirely me but rather the non-thinking animal in me. That way you can be much more forgiving with yourself.

I was working on the track in the studio when the image of a she-wolf just appeared in my head, and there it stayed. I went to a corner of the studio and wrote the first part of the lyrics and the melody in like ten minutes. When I least expected it, I was howling and panting.

The 'She Wolf' is a woman during the day and an animal at night. The 'She Wolf' knows what she wants and goes for it. The 'She Wolf' is a free woman and therefore a happy one. The 'She Wolf' is not just me; she represents the women of our time, and perhaps the men of our time too.

There are many subconscious desires that exist within every man and woman, the part that we hide from the world. The 'She Wolf' is the individual that satisfies those desires and sets them free. I think that if I really dive deep into the lyrics, this song's about the individual liberties that belong to each and every one of us that we can now defend with teeth and claws.

Well I've worked with Pharrell Williams this time around, which was a great experience because I learned a lot from him in the studio. We did four songs together; we wrote and produced them and it was a lot of fun. And also some other artist friends of mine have participated in the creative process, but this album is basically me solo. There are no duets or anything like that so far.

Since this is primarily an English album, I wanted to make sure that my Spanish-speaking fans felt close to the project from the very start. My Spanish album will come out next year.

I've been writing since I was 8 years old and it's still a mystery to me. There are images that navigate for days in my subconscious until they make themselves concrete and they become songs. They are like secret codes, which I can't even translate or recognize myself, until they become lyrics, and music. Like in the world of dreams, we dream about a lot of things every night which we may not remember during the day but they are latent. In my creative process, I think I am dreaming the whole time until I wake up with a song in my hands.

There are stories about other people, stories about girlfriends of mine that touched and inspired me for this album, as well as some of my own fantasies.

I think I was always really shy but now I feel more like a woman, so I find myself writing with less prudishness.

Of course when you first start a project you are in front of a white canvas and there is nothing scarier than that. You never know the final destination of a creative project, but from the beginning, I wanted to make sure that this album had a very strong foundation. I wanted it to be very bass-driven, and to make sure the kicks hit really hard. I wanted to concentrate on the beats and have the chance to experiment with synths, but also combine the sounds of the world that have always fascinated me.

I've been writing and producing this album for over a year. After my last tour I decided to go to university and study, which is something I'd always wanted to do. I also dedicated a big part of my time to launching a new school in my hometown, Barranquilla. It's a state-of-the art school and community center that serves 1,800 students and thousands of families. It provides support to the community, in the middle of an area that has been devastated by extreme poverty, internal displacement and conflict. Our schools provide quality education with nutrition, which is what we consider the most important component. We offer psychological support, occupational training for the parents, sports facilities for the whole neighborhood, music, dance and art classes. It's literally a school of open doors to this community. So it was a very complex project but it's already given us so much satisfaction. I can't wait to continue doing more.

The new album is very electronic, dance, upbeat – it only has two mid-tempo songs. It has a different sonic approach, most of it is designed for the clubs, for people to have fun and forget about their troubles. If as an artist, I can contribute to that in some small way with my music, then I would consider myself very fortunate.

I wanted to play around with electronica, beats, synthesizers and I began to research folk from other countries looking for new influences that allowed me to combine electronics with world sounds, tambourines, clarinets, oriental and Hindu music, dancehall, etc.

Jake Nava directed it. It's a little surreal, a lot of dancing, a lot of fantasy. I created a lot of my dance moves and I also worked with HiHat, who is one of my favorite choreographers. The part in the cage was mostly improvisation.

Of course I am the she-wolf – but there are other women in the video who are also she-wolves. There are a lot of colors and imagery and of course the moon is very present; the moon and its influence.

Antonio and I have a home and we function as a married couple. I don't think that a paper or an institution can unite us more than we already are.