Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.

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

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.