When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places where there really are no limitations. As long as you've got drive and hard work and a good idea and you can get out there and do your thing, there's no social classes, so in a lot of countries there's a big history of regardless of how much money you may make, there's still that little thing where you're not in society. That doesn't exist here.

My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.