You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

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

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.