I love Gershwin. I love musicals.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

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.

I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.