I wouldn't recommend working with your partner for everyone, because it's tough. There's got to be a really keen balance. You've got to know when to stop being the manager and become the husband. I can't go home and complain to my husband about my manager.

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.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

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

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