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

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

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.

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'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places where there really are no limitations. As long as you've got drive and hard work and a good idea and you can get out there and do your thing, there's no social classes, so in a lot of countries there's a big history of regardless of how much money you may make, there's still that little thing where you're not in society. That doesn't exist here.