When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it. But I think it's important to realize the blessing of the Internet, which is that everybody has a voice and you can break through, even without a record company.

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