Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

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.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.