I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.

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.

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

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.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.