Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

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.

Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

I love Gershwin. I love musicals.

If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.