Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

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.

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