The best part of having two babies at once, a son and a daughter, is mostly everything. You're just having that feeling of love inside you all the time and motherhood is such a fulfilling place to be. I kind of wish it would have happened to me earlier in my life.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.

I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When you do that, it's funnier. And when you do that, you really do hit the emotional beats. I do it the same way as I do a drama. I just play it for truth, and then maybe have a little bit of fun with it sometimes.

I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!