The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

Love is one of my main inspirations.

It's the one thing we can all relate to no matter what religion, what color, what nationality: we can all relate to sex and love.

[Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always cool when you have the choice.

I don't care what people say. My music's my music.

The power of music in Spanish is so strong that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.