A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, "Yeah, right." You don't do that where I come from.

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!

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

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

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

We had our moment [with Marc Anthony] in the third or fourth year that we were married, when we did everything together: We did "El Cantante," we did the tour, we made all the music together, he produced my album [2007's Spanish-language "Como Ama una Mujer"]. That was a really beautiful time for us.