It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

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.

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

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.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.