I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

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.

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

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.

I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.