It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and Ive always looked at life that way; Ive always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that Ive gone through.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.