As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

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

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

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