You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

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

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've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.

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.

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

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