Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

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.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

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

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.