That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.

The roughest road often leads to the top.

It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.