We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

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.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

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.

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