I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

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.

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.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.