If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.

I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?

I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.

We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It's the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.

Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist.