I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

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

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.