I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.